Bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again is the essence of [[../Notes/meditation]].
“==The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will==. No one is compos sui [master of himself] if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence. But it is easier to define this ideal than to give practical directions for bringing it about.”—William James , Psychology: Briefer Course via:: Knowledge Continuum
I find this whole quote to be very applicable to meditation:
No one is master of himself if he have it not.
And none of us have it, AFAIK.
An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence
Biased here, but yea; I consider buddhism and meditation to be the most pure, most real, most important psycho-spiritual technology available to the human mind.
But it is easier to define this ideal than to give practical directions for bringing it about.
Teaching (and learning) meditation is more difficult than reading about the (assumed) historical figure that was the Buddha.
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