Sharpen Your Ability To Pay Attention

                                                     

When I was very young, I realised I just didn't know anything. If you realise that you do not know if it's a full-scale realisation that you do not know anything, paying attention will be natural. 

Because you know everything - you know this guy, you know this, this, this, this, this, there are assumptions and assumptions and assumptions. You can use it differently; even if you are doing business, it's for business purposes.

Who is a leader 

The only reason why all the opportunities seem to be going in the direction of one individual and not other people is simply because he's able to see and other people are not able to see. It's not that it's not there for others. One can see, and others are not able to see. So, essentially, being a leader means that you can see something that others are not able to see. 

Attention without intention

Simply being attentive is what we were trying to do in the afternoon; not paying attention to something, just practising attention, a very heightened level of attention, where unfocused attention, but when you focus it on something, just about anything has to yield. There is no other way to get this attention. Essentially, you know that you exist only because you have some sense of attention right now. Suppose you fall asleep and lose your attention; you don't even know that you exist. So, the basis of your existence itself is attention. And this attention need not be mortgaged to anything. 

You just have to sharpen the attention 

See, if you have a knife in your hands, there is no such thing that you have to cut only apples with this. If you have a sharp enough knife, you can cut anything that you want. But the important thing is that the knife is sharp enough. If your attention is keen enough not for something or the other. If your attention has become very keen, if you wish to do a certain type of activity, you can successfully do it. 

If you want your life to be profound, you need to pay attention 

Anything yields to you not only to the extent you pay attention to it; in this aspect, breath is a beautiful device to practice attention. Attention is not for a specific purpose; it is simply to be attentive. People who are completely soaked in their arts pay absolute attention to their arts, and then you will see how these arts will yield to them. They are at a different level of function altogether, this goes for everything, whether you are an artist, you are a scientist, you’re a spiritually oriented, you are a business person or you’re just living your life in terms of your family, your love, your joy, all these things will yield to you, only because you have paid sufficient attention to it.

Human attention can open just about any door in the universe 

But to be able to be attentive, without purpose, without calculating the results, just to be attentive to make life force into an attentive process. Well, people’s attention is off and on, and always if I pay this attention what will I get? No, attention gets you life, and deeper life, if you want your life to be profound. If you want to experience various dimensions of life, you need to pay attention. Human intention is a powerful force. Your attention can be just of the mind, or you can engage your whole body in your attention. If you want to mean, if you need to understand this. Íf you watch a tiger, or a leopard or a cheetah crouching for its hunt, you will see he is not only paying mental attention, his entire body is attentive, he’s focused, the energies are focused, so if you engage, your body, your energies into the mental attention. 

This attention becomes a tremendous force 

Suddenly, this attention becomes a tremendous force that makes a variety of aspects of life to yield to you. Life yields to you only to the extent that you can create the power of attention. The power of human attention is an incredible force you have to learn With necessary practice to unleash this force to your benefit and to everyone’s benefit. 

You must know the incredible power of human attention 

Conclusion 

Anything yields to you only to the extent to which you pay attention to it. In this context, your breath is a beautiful device because it is always on. 

Sadhguru’s words 

Questioner: So, Sadhguru, what about people saying that we were created by God?

Sadhguru: See, obviously you did not create yourself…

That's for sure. Our ideas of God may vary from culture to culture, and different people around the world have different ideas about it, different beliefs about it….

This universe opens its doors only to those who pay enough attention. Whichever door has been opened for you in your life has opened because you paid attention to that dimension of life