Distraction

Does your awareness ever ever stop?

You look...and something arises, 
after which another thing arises, 
and another, on and on and on (like forever).
Is this not the nature of awareness?

In meditation we watch our chosen object, 
a distraction arises, 
followed by a distant distraction, 
followed by a very very distant distraction, and then...
Boom! we're back to the original object. No?

But even when lost in distraction and ignorance, 
there's always SOMETHING to feel or observe.
There's ALWAYS something, 
Under whatever wild and crazy conditions,
something...then something...then something...
(even in deep sleep.). No?

What would happen???
If you focused your meditative attention on that something, 
Following that something as it shifts, 
watching it even as you are slammed and obliterated 
by distraction after distraction, 
by ignorance and more ignorance,
like getting hit by big waves at the beach, 
letting the waves knock you off your feet and immediately standing back up
over and over and over again.
What would happen if you did that?


10/3/25