Requesting people’s undivided attention is too high an expectation for our modern world, for this has become the scarcest currency around.
Attention-dividing agents are so pervasive they remain unnoticed.
Once left to its natural flow and deprived of such agents, the attention flow I already prone to sections, hiatus, interruptions…
noticing this default mode is precisely what constitutes the basic work while meditating.
The manner our attention flows is materially tampered with through concrete dividing agents, and our smartphones can unexpectedly represent an opportunity to realize this division process in our daily lives, while away from the practice cushion.
The larger-than-life, caricatural feature of their action on our mind can represent a pedagogical path leading us to better approach the nature of our mind, by observing similarities between in vitro (dojo) an in vivo (IRL) situations.
The parallel is easier to notice in the case of those technological tools, for we are, just like when sitting zazen (or trying to), the divided flow and the actor of division.
No one else has forced us to grab the phone initially…
Notes & Silence 
Finding it difficult to keep your mind from wandering?
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Why would I even sit otherwise?
Flee from the man who claims to control his mind.
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Indeed. I find mine increasingly unruly.
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Same here…the more I practice, the worst it is.
Or maybe the more able to notice it we become.
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