Is Focusing In The Meditation A Good Think To Do?

[Delinkaaaa]

Hello Guys!

I am new one here and I would like to start my task on this forum by question.

I know this is going to sound crazy, but do you thing that focus is realy a good thing to do in your meditation?

And I am for real. You know, I have got that feeling, that focusing is something that is, in a sence, deflecting my way towards the enlightement. I mean that it cost me some power and affords to focus durring the meditation, and I thing that my meditation should be more like pursuing the stuff that is aroun, not to be focusing on it.

I want to be pursuing events without a focus, that is what I thing I need to do! That is how I feel it.

I feel that focus is not a good way to pursue reality within myself. The main reason - I am repeting, because I dont want you to lost - is that focus i a way of effort. And I feel that enlightement is more about the vanish of effort, than the way of efforting.

I feel that I should get to the enlighement trough myself like a knife trough the butter. What a lovely metaphor, dont you think?! So that is what i mean.

Thank you very much all!

Love, Delinkaaaa

Edited March 9, 2017 by Delinkaaaa

[Prabhaker]

16 hours ago, Delinkaaaa said:

I know this is going to sound crazy, but do you thing that focus is realy a good thing to do in your meditation?

The ability to concentrate is not something to feel blessed about. It is a frozen state of mind, a very narrow state of mind. Useful, of course, useful — for others. Useful in scientific inquiry, useful in business, useful in the market, useful in politics — but absolutely useless for yourself. If you become too attuned with concentration you will become very, very tense. Concentration is a tense state of mind; you will never be relaxed. Concentration is like a torch, focused, and consciousness is like a lamp, unfocused.

If you become conscious, any moment you want to concentrate on a particular problem, you can. It is not a problem. But if you become too focused with concentration the vice versa is not true: you cannot relax. A relaxed mind can always concentrate. easily, there is no trouble about it. But a focused mind becomes obsessed. narrow. It is not easy for it to relax and leave the tension. It remains tense.

Meditation will allow you to concentrate whenever the need arises, but if there is no need you will remain relaxed, flowing in all directions like water.

It is not concentration, because in concentration you focus on one thing and you forget everything else. When you are concentrating you will not listen to the humming of the bees or to the singing of the birds; you will only see what you are concentrating upon.

Concentration is narrowing down your consciousness to a point. It is good in archery: you have a target and you have to see only the target and you have to forget everything else.

Meditation means no-mind – not even concentration is allowed. Mind itself is not allowed to be! That is why meditation cannot be grasped by mind. Up to concentration mind has a reach, an approach. Mind can understand concentration, but mind cannot understand meditation. Really, mind is not allowed at all. In concentration, mind is allowed to be at one point. In meditation, even that point is taken away. 

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