Maintain your peripheral awareness as you again give your attention to the first of all to sound and tactile sensations,
Limiting your attention to only the senses,
The five physical senses.
And predominantly those will be reports from either hearing,
Sound,
Feeling the tactile.
Then narrow the scope of your attention to only the tactile domain so now sound can remain in peripheral awareness and help to keep peripheral expanded so that it doesn't disappear and collapse as it usually does when your attention is engaged.
Now narrow the scope of your attention again to only the tactile sensations correlated with the breath,
Those sensations that change as the breath enters and leaves your body.
Your peripheral awareness is also the source of introspective awareness.
Maintain continuous introspective awareness of your attention as it is focused only on tactile sensations of the breath.
And now we will really begin to practice the fusion of stillness and motion.
Let your introspective awareness now be primarily reporting on the stillness of your awareness,
Meaning it is not set in motion by grasping to any mental appearance or even to any tactile sensations.
It remains still and let your introspective awareness be giving you continuous reports about this mirror-like absence of turbulence of your awareness.
And now simultaneously as you are maintaining your awareness of the stillness of your awareness,
You will tend to those fluctuations of the breath.
You can give attention to the tactile sensations of the breath wherever they occur without focusing on one particular spot.
As you get real-time reports on the stillness of your awareness and now shift the way that you know those fluctuations of the breath from the tactile domain to the mental domain and simply know the breath as immediately as the potter knows that the revolution of his wheel is long or short,
Simply as you maintain your awareness of the stillness of the breath,
Of the awareness,
Simply know the rhythm of the breath.
This is the fusion of stillness and motion.
Okay.
If your introspective awareness alerts you that your awareness has been set in motion by grasping to some fantasy or memory,
Release your grasp on the distracting object,
Rejoice,
And say,
Ah,
I am lucid again.
This is it.
Return to that stillness of your awareness and then remain attentive to simultaneously knowing stillness of awareness and the fluctuations of the breath.
Let your introspective awareness give you real-time reports about the stillness of your awareness.
As you know the rhythm of the breath.
If your awareness is set in motion by grasping to one of these appearances,
Release,
Rejoice,
Return,
Remain.
Okay.
Okay.
Let your continuous introspective awareness give you real-time reports about the stillness of your awareness as you know the rhythm of the breath.
Okay.
Okay.
