Most of us treat attention as something we apply, like pressure, to whatever we're trying to accomplish. But there's another kind of attention that turns out to be the ground beneath all real creative work. This episode is a reflection on what arrives when we stop managing the moment and start letting it be what it already is.

Your host, Sōkei, is a Zen teacher and artist and the creator of Creative Life in Contact, a body of work that helps creatives draw on direct experience as the source of a vibrant and genuine creative life.

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