Attentiveness to SensuousnessIf you keep in mind that 'sensuousness' is the point of contact of a sense object (sight, sound, smell, taste, sensations, and thoughts) and its corresponding sense door (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind), then you know what to be attentive to.
at·ten·tive (-tntv)
adj.
1. Giving care or attention; watchful: attentive to detail. (the definition to keep in mind)
And reread
http://actualfreedom.com.au/richard/articles/attentivenesssensuousnessapperceptiveness.htm"Attentiveness gets not infatuated with the good feelings nor sidesteps the bad as attentiveness is a non-feeling awareness; a sensuous attention. Attentiveness is not sentimental susceptibility for it does not get involved with affection or empathy or get hung up on mercurial imaginations and capricious intuitions or ephemeral auguries. Attentiveness does not register feelings and compare the validity of experience according to it ‘feeling right’ or ‘feeling wrong’. Attentiveness is an aesthetic alertness that takes place with minimised reference to self. With attentiveness one sees the internal world with blameless references to concepts like ‘my’ or ‘mine’. Suppose there is a feeling of sadness. Ordinary consciousness would say, ‘I am sad’. Using attentiveness, one heedfully notices the feeling as a natural feeling – ‘There is human sadness’ – thus one does not tack on that possessive personal concept of ‘I’ or ‘me’ ... for one is already possessed. Attentiveness is the observance of the basic nature of each arising feeling**; it is observing all the inner world – emotional, passionate and calentural – which is whatever is presently taking place in the affective faculty. Attentiveness is seeing how any feeling makes ‘me’ tick – and how ‘I’ react to it – with the perspicacity of seeing how it affects others as well. In attentiveness, there is an unbiased observing of the constant showing-up of the ‘reality’ within and is examining the feelings arising one after the other ... and such attentiveness is the ending of its grip. Please note that last point: in attentiveness, there is an observance of the ‘reality’ within, and such attention is the end of its embrace ... finish.
Here lies apperception." Richard
** As far as I understand this highlighted sentence, it means to be attentive to the very 'basic nature' of one's experience in any given moment. And at any given moment a sense door is being hit with a sense object and out of ignorance and lack of apperceptive awareness, mental proliferation follows and gives rise to affective feelings and a sense of 'being'/me-ness/inner world/presence/location in the world. If you are attentive to the point of contact of a sense object and its corresponding sense door, the sequence that usually out of ignorance follows the point of contact onto the arising of an affective filter/sense of 'being' will be interrupted. Doing this continuously will then eventually lead to apperception (PCE: the temporary abeyance of mentioned sense of 'being' etc.). If it helps to equate 'mindfulness' to 'attentiveness' then do so.