This is useful. I neither validate nor refute it. I find value in it.

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“The attenuation of awareness first creates the medium of consciousness, that further attenuates, resulting in the functional dimness called “attention”. Deluded identification is nothing other than the activity of attention which is the movement of intentional consciousness from an apprehender to an apprehended – the subject object dichotomy.

Beings are acts of attention moving through the medium of consciousness – constructed as a realm. Both “being” (the subject or “I”) and consciousness/realm (other) are constructs made from attenuated awareness wherein the “I” and “realm” have become cemented constructs which trap awareness -that has lost all notion of its original infinitely expansive reality.

The methods of dharma break the cement of identification . It is not the structuring act, which is simply the rolpa tsal (playful spontaneity) of awareness, but the rigid and total act of identification, and narrowing, that is results in suffering.

Attention and its movement is wherein magic takes place. When a bear shaman moves the structure of attention perfectly to the configuration called bear then they experience themselves as “bear” and acquire the unique vision and magic of a bear. When it is placed on a tantric deity then one becomes something much more magical than a bear.

When awareness is not locked into cemented identification then attention becomes a magical mechanism which makes possible the wisdom magic of tantra. It also becomes like an article of clothing that can be taken off or put on as awareness pleases.”

– Traktung Khepa; from a recent talk in Vienna”