Attention, consciousness, awareness, focus

[StarStruck]

Are they the same?

[The0Self]

consciousness = awareness = knowing (or "seeming")

attention = focus

consciousness + intention = attention

Edited February 21, 2021 by The0Self

[Kalki Avatar]

 

[Vibroverse]

Depending on how you create your terminology and what those words mean to you. There is no such thing as an absolute meaning of a word. Each consciousness can interpret it in a different way. 

[StarStruck]

@The0Self @Kalki Avatar @Vibroverse thanks guys. I like the formula. It made it clear for me.

Currently contemplating it.

I noticed that contemplating in sets is baring fruits. Otherwise it just doesn't stick.

[snowyowl]

I'm currently reading (and practicing) The Mind Illuminated which is a practical resource for exploring these aspects of mind (checkout the First Interlude). He uses 'awareness' as a synonym for 'peripheral awareness', and 'attention' meaning 'focus', his theme is how to use both modes to best effect in our lives. "Mindfulness is the optimal interaction attention and peripheral awareness. "

My own addition to this is seeing awareness as unified being (unfragmented whole), and attention is when we focus on a part of the whole, so creating 'things', dividing reality up into foreground and background, object and environment. 

Edited February 22, 2021 by snowyowl