Our experience of attention is one that incorporates the belief in focus, concentration, energy and accumulation of data as the definer of "understanding by learning" and thus purports to be the definer of reality (as divided). The belief that "attention is narrowing the view to see less than the whole" stands blocking the understanding that attention is not truly attentive unless it is used wholly without such divisive and false ideation. When such divided attention reaches out to understand, the mind is simultaneously holding within it the belief that it can divide reality and decide which parts are worthy of attention. Since reality is the only thing that "can" be understood, and since reality is indivisible, the conditions the mind would place upon the attempt, block understanding because knowledge can only be known wholly. Such a belief that would incorporate conditions and limitations for understanding, literally denies truth and represents the refusal to understand…even though the mental or verbal pattern of the attempt would claim the opposite (see "asking").

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