When you do routine activities, are you able to notice how much you are on autopilot? Or do you see how the mind is busy with its own thoughts while the body is engaged in some routine work? Through the practice of concentration we are making the unconscious autopilot movements
Just like an athlete develops his muscles methodically by gradual training, the faculty of concentrated attention can be developed by a methodical training in such a way that concentration is obtained at will and on whatever subject or activity is chosen. It is not enough to practice concentration as a
When you concentrate on your chest area, it is a physical location. First you may concentrate on the surface of the chest to feel the sensations on the surface. Then try to move deeper inward to feel the space within the chest area. There, feel the presence of a steady
Last week we saw that without concentration one cannot achieve anything. But what exactly is concentration? Ordinarily, our consciousness is spread out everywhere, dispersed, running in this or that direction, after this subject and that object in multitude. Concentration means gathering of all the scattered movements of consciousness into a
The Three Powers of Concentration 1) Knowing By concentration on anything whatsoever, we are able to know that thing. 2) Acquiring By concentration, the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of any object whatsoever. 3) Becoming By concentration of our whole being on one state or one