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Yoniso manasikāra

Wise attention: attending to experience in a way that leads to understanding and away from suffering.

Also: wise attention

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

Yoniso manasikāra, appropriate or wise attention, attends to things by their origin, seeing what is wholesome as wholesome and what is impermanent as impermanent. The Buddha called it a nutriment of the factors of awakening, while unwise attention feeds the hindrances.