Difference Between Mind’s Attention And The Field Of Knowingness/Awareness

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

Transcript

Mind's attention is different from other people's attention.

Mind's attention is different from awareness.

If you remember I've given you this example in Buddha of spotlight and floodlight.

Now in experience,

How do I know it?

When you are meditating,

Suppose you are meditating on your breath,

You're observing your breath go in and out.

Who's observing?

It's really the mind focusing on the breath going in and out and out.

If you are very vigilant,

You notice there's a noir knowing that the mind is focusing on the breath going in and out.

Yes,

Advaita is directly here.

The noir,

It's higher level,

The highest level.

So coming to that,

That noir or that awareness is what Advaita is talking about.

Advaita is not talking about the attention of the mind.

The attention was there in this financial talk with this person,

But then it was gone with that person.

That is the mind's focus.

Two different things.

If you're very tired,

Say 10 o'clock in the night,

11 o'clock in the night,

You can't focus so well on reading a paragraph and observing it the way you focused in the morning at 7 a.

M.

And absorb that.

Understood?

Mind's focus or mind's attention is different from awareness.

The knowingness,

The noir.

That is always there.

That is always there.