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Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min · 3 segments
More of a lively ramble than a talk, Devamitra explores of the relationship between imagination and devotion based loosely around the Ti Ratana…
We can have wise attention and we can have unwise attention.
If we allow our attention to dwell upon, uh, something which is of benefit to us, well, that would be wise attention.
If, however, we allow ourselves to, or our attention to dwell upon something which is potentially harmful to us, well, that would be unwise attention.
Well, engaging in this kind of devotional practice in the way that I've described, or at least in the spirit in which I've described, would be a, a kind of wise attention, I would say.
Um, and this is very, very important because if we want to succeed, uh, in our Buddhist practice, even we just want to ex- uh, succeed in the practice of meditation, we have to find, um, what Sangharakshita, the founder of this, this movement de- described as intellectual understandings.
I beg your pardon, emotional equivalents for our intellectual understandings.
And I think the key to this is what I've described by finding what by somehow stimulating our imagination, allowing our imagination to engage, uh, with the ideals that, uh, uh, we profess.
We can have wise attention and we can have unwise attention.
If we allow our attention to dwell upon, uh, something which is of benefit to us, well, that would be wise attention.
If, however, we allow ourselves to, or our attention to dwell upon something which is potentially harmful to us, well, that would be unwise attention.
Well, engaging in this kind of devotional practice in the way that I've described, or at least in the spirit in which I've described, would be a, a kind of wise attention, I would say.
Um, and this is very, very important because if we want to succeed, uh, in our Buddhist practice, even we just want to ex- uh, succeed in the practice of meditation, we have to find, um, what Sangharakshita, the founder of this, this movement de- described as intellectual understandings.
I beg your pardon, emotional equivalents for our intellectual understandings.
And I think the key to this is what I've described by finding what by somehow stimulating our imagination, allowing our imagination to engage, uh, with the ideals that, uh, uh, we profess.
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