The World of Talking

[serloco]

I agree with much of what you said, and you said it very well. However I must point out that your reasoning of the first attention is still directing your judgements of 'average' people. A lesson I learned again yesterday as I approached someone's self-importance with a negative expectation and judgement. Realizing this, little by little I shifted the judgement of the person, using my awareness of the person in a controlled manner that effectively shifted their awareness away from self-importance to hear what I had to say. Initially I was caught by my own judgement, my own self-importance, that can stereotype people, and place them in the position of awareness I had of seeing people as being very self-important. It's a fine line between two positions, first as seeing what is in actuality their awareness, and the second as seeing the power of our own position of awareness and the judgement we force into perception. Both are seeing, yet from two different positions of awareness.