Remember to pay attention to your attention. Allow it to be open and free, so that your awareness will expand, your suffering will shrink, and your joy will grow. Open it by letting go of anything that could restrict it from going where it needs to go. Free it by unshackling it from control and by allowing it to move when it needs to move.
Notice your attachments to your intentions — to your strongest desires, aversions, and beliefs. Notice how your attention returns to these same intentions over and over again. Notice also the kinds of suffering that you experience — persistent feelings of regret, stress, anxiety, frustration, anger, despair, grief, and many more.
Recognize the connection between your suffering and your attachments, and how the former arises when your attention is controlled by the latter. Set your attention free from all of the thoughts, feelings, memories, and imaginings that arise in you again and again. Notice how often your attention settles on thoughts about your intentions and how difficult it can be to set it free again.
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