Your thoughts can continue, but at the present time you don't want to pay attention to your thoughts. You think about reality all the time, but now you just want to pay attention to awareness of reality.
You want this awareness to be impartial, that is whole, the whole of reality as experienced by you now. You want to be completely open to life as it is now. Never mind what you like or what you don't like. Is it possible that something in you can accept that which is, as is? Can you pay attention to that awareness? We are responding to reality at every moment and you continue to respond. If you can remain aware of reality, you are responding consciously at that time.
Put your attention on now and try to keep your attention on now as you are breathing. Try to remain aware during one whole breath. When your attention wanders, bring it back to now. Give this your best effort.
Our thought is accustomed to having our attention, like a spoiled child. If your thought is demanding, try doing something unusual with your body, something non-habitual that will not attract the attention of others. If you are alone you can make unusual and unnecessary movements, make faces, tense and relax muscles, speed up or slow down habitual behavior, do things twice unnecessarily. Making a change in your habitual behavior will draw your attention from your thought to your body at the moment of making the change. This produces a small moment of awareness.
Try these experiments at quiet times first, for example when you are just getting up in the morning. Try it at simple times. This is not a practice of multi-tasking. Do this when you have all your attention for this one experiment.
Can you actually experience awareness of reality? Let me know your results.
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