Weekend Check-In - Learning To Notice

In this weekend check-in, Kit Mann makes the case that the noticing practice does not start in the meditation sitting or in the hard conversation. It starts in the moments that have nothing at stake. The temperature of the air when the door opens. The weight of the coffee cup. The face of the person across the table, actually looked at.

The faculty that notices those things is the same faculty that catches the ego arriving before it has said anything. That registers the shift in a conversation before it becomes a problem. That brings the attention back to the breath in the sitting. It is one thing. It gets built in the small moments or it does not get built.

This weekend's practice: one walk, twenty minutes, phone in the pocket. Look for what nature is doing in the places where it was not invited. The weed in the concrete. The tree growing from the rock face. The moss on the city wall. Not to interpret it. Just to see it. And notice what else becomes visible once the filtering is off.

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