Disinterested Attention
This was Rabbie Burns favourite kind of attention in friendship.
We may well benefit from cultivating a healthy disinterest in the thinking mind's resistance to any actual growth or change and, as we sensitise our attention to our internal experience, we may discover it is worthwhile to find a balance of disinterest for this fresh sensitivity too.
' then gently scan your brother man, still gentler sister woman'
In Burns' poem Address to the Unco Guid he writes the line above, drawing our attention to the quality of attention itself when being with others. I found a few words in response below.
