First off, let me set something straight: mind has nothing to do with attention. Thought has nothing to do with attention.
Attention is an energy, and it’s NOT operated by the mind or your thoughts. Not and never…
Never mistake mindlessness for mindfulness. “We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.”
Everybody wants a silent mind. So much so that they consider being unconscious a blissful state. But going unconscious, being unconscious, is not the purpose of training yourself to have control over your mind…
What you train is your attention.
Attention is, surprisingly, an energetic phenomenon… I see it as a vector: it has a base, and it has a direction. It has a certain energetic, penetrative quality.