20 Minutes Of Focus Healing

[Jared Gregory]

Hello guys. 

I was listening to andy shaw's bug free mind audio book and in chapter 5 he talks about 15 seconds of positive thinking or ( no mind). 

I have been able to do this with no problem. i was talking to @Lawrence and he was saying ' light a candle, and stare at it and keep focused on the light for 15-20 minutes' this does interest me. 

I was just wondering if anybody cares to share any experiences or advice to share on focus meditation to create no mind.

 

[Prabhaker]

1 hour ago, Jared Gregory said:

he was saying ' light a candle, and stare at it and keep focused on the light for 15-20 minutes'

Concentration is a choice. It excludes all except its object of concentration; it is a narrowing. The moment you narrow the mind you become particularly conscious of one thing and simultaneously unconscious of so many other things. Concentration is an act, a willed act. Meditation is a state of no will, a state of inaction. It is relaxation. Concentration is not meditation.

 

[Capethaz]

@Prabhaker I don't agree with you. Samatha-Vipassana (Concentration + Insight) are great tool to gain insight. I personally know people that attained insight just with concetration practice.

Edited October 4, 2016 by Capethaz

[Kserkkj]

Some concentration practices can increase discernment and are worthwhile doing though right? Like staring at an object till you de-label everything of it to see the true nature of the object or what's really there.

[Lawrence]

4 hours ago, Capethaz said:

@Prabhaker I don't agree with you. Samatha-Vipassana (Concentration + Insight) are great tool to gain insight. I personally know people that attained insight just with concetration practice.

Exactly!!!

[Capethaz]

@Kserkkj There's a point in concentration practice that both you and the object disappear and you see your true nature.

[Prabhaker]

5 hours ago, Capethaz said:

I don't agree with you. Samatha-Vipassana (Concentration + Insight) are great tool to gain insight. I personally know people that attained insight just with concetration practice.

Concentration of the mind is a need in order to live–to survive and exist. The more narrowed the mind is, the more successful it will be. Useful in scientific inquiry, useful in business, useful in the market, useful in politics.  You will become a specialist, you will become an expert, but the whole thing will consist of knowing more and more about less and less.

 In concentration you bring your mind to one point. In meditation you drop that point also.

 When I say “Meditate”, I mean “Watch”. If I say “Meditate on the songs of the birds”, I am simply saying “Watch”. I am not saying “Concentrate”. You cannot concentrate for twenty-four hours, you will have to take holidays to rest. Concentration can never become your nature. Meditation does not tire, meditation does not exhaust you. Meditation can become a twenty-four hour thing - day in, day out, year in, year out. It can become eternity. It is relaxation itself.

Meditation is immediacy. You cannot meditate, you can be in meditation. You cannot be in concentration, but you can concentrate. Concentration is human, meditation is divine.