Can You Be Conscious And Concentrate At The Same Time?

[DawnOfReality]

When I am concentrating on something (eg. I am concentrated whilst I am studying) and try to become aware of the present moment, it is like if I switched my concentration to the fact that I am consciouss of this right moment. And thus lose that flow concentration on the thing I was doing...

[Prabhaker]

@DawnOfReality

Concentrate 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 meditation is like a lamp, unfocused.

If you meditate. first concentration will disappear and you will be feeling a little at a loss. But if you go on, by and by you will attain to an unfocused state of light — that’s what meditation is. Once meditation is attained. concentration is child’s play — whenever you need to, you can concentrate. There will be no problem about it and it will be easy and without any tension.

Meditation will allow you to concentrate whenever the need arises, but if there is no need you will remain relaxed.

[DawnOfReality]

So what you are saying is that you can actually focus and be conscious at the same time only when you reached a certain level of consciousness through meditation work?

I see what you mean, but at the beginning of your post I notice how you tend to separate the two things, but what I have noticed is that concentration is considered core to be able to pursue enlightment, needed to achieve every goal, from the most mundane ones to the most spiritual. I am probably thinking black and white right now..

 

[Prabhaker]

19 minutes ago, DawnOfReality said:

So what you are saying is that you can actually focus and be conscious at the same time only when you reached a certain level of consciousness through meditation work?

No, a person who has grown into a mediator can focus whenever needed, while he is concentrating , he is not in a state of meditation, but he will be relaxed, not in a tense state like us. Like small children, when the play they forget other things, they are focused but not tense.