# attention not self part 2 **Opening (not a real abstract):** Attention and Centring It is far from uncommon for thinkers to appeal to the idea of a central core of personality, and indeed to equate it with a conception of self. Kristjánsson is typical in claiming that the self is ‘the set of a person’s core commitments, traits, aspirations and ideals: the characteristics that are most central to him or her’ (Kristjánsson : ). Ekstrom’s conception of self, discussed in the last find an analogous conception in Pāli Buddhism. We noted in Part I that Buddhists employ the notion of a ‘frame’ of awareness or ‘mind-set’, the Pāli term for which is citta. Conscious experience is a ‘space’ which is ‘occupied’ by an object or task, accompanied by a variety of ‘concomitants’ (cetasika). Johansson says that ‘citta [ . . . is . . . ] the core of personality, the centre of **Authors:** [[Finitude and Flow]]