Attention Is Not Separate From Mind-Heart

 

So says the last line of the "10 Phrase Life Prolonging Kannon Sutra":

延 命 十 句 觀 音 經 (Emmei Jukku Kannon Gyo)

觀世音 南無佛

KANZEON NAMU BUTSU

與佛有因 與佛有緣

YO BUTSU U IN YO BUTSU U EN

佛法僧緣 常樂我淨

BU PO SO EN JO RAKU GA JO

朝念觀世音 暮念觀世音

CHO NEN KANZEON BO NEN KANZEON

念念從心起 念念不離心

NEN NEN JU SHIN KI NEN NEN FU RI SHIN

Where is your attention? That is where your mind and heart are: that's what you're caring  about at the moment.


And one of the points of that sutra, by the way, is to heighten one's degree of attention.

Geez,  I could almost have Tweeted that.