For me, paying attention develops attentiveness. I don't know how to break it down further, except to say the practice of reminding myself to pay attention helps me to be attentive. My thought in response to 'what does entering reality mean to me' is what reality are you talking about. I've come to have more and more sense of being in two worlds, that is, the world of form and the world of Being. The world of form is what we call reality, though it's not or at least it's very limited, and the world of Being is Reality, though it is mostly ignored or unknown. Being in the world (of form) and not of it has come to be reality for me sometimes -- I have periods of abiding in that awareness, which is peaceful and positive for me.
On Sep 16, 2012 david doane wrote :