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title: "Hooks of Wealth: Mastering Focus and Release"
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# Hooks of Wealth: Mastering Focus and Release

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## About This Reading

Explore the Four of Pentacles and the distinction between mindful attention and attachment in habits like smoking. A 4th Tarot chronicle.

You mistake intensity of experience for depth of attention. The question of mindful smoking reveals how we confuse absorption with awareness. The Four of Pentacles shows a figure clutching its treasures, believing security lies in possession—not just of objects, but of habits and sensations. True self-remembering (https://4thtarot.com/glossary/self-remembering) requires divided attention: present with the outer phenomenon while maintaining awareness of the inner witness. When mindfulness merely intensifies craving or deepens the grooves of compulsion, it becomes parigraha—a more elaborate form of clinging. Can you distinguish between being absorbed by an experience and consciously observing it?

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Self-remembering

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