Concentration Means A Direction, Where The Mind Is Lost

**Note: Truth does not always sound pleasant. If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, one has to be aware of the emotions or reactions that can block one from listenING ATTENTIVELY and with HUMILITY. This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, nor agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

Transcript

When the mind is in concentration, The mind is isolated by itself. Look around this world, Almost everybody is living in their own world. Things are becoming more and more superficial. Everyone is disconnected. They are not aware of deep connection at all because there is no attention to life. Everyone is seeking their own pleasure to escape from the fear for a moment, No matter how short the moment is. This seeking pleasure is crazy, Isn't it? Without attention, The life is full of seeking. The life has to be driven by thoughts, By an idea, By an image, Or else the life can't continue. People are living for a reward. No matter what they do, They always ask for a reward. Without a reward, They do nothing because their action must be driven by a reward. That's most people's lifestyle, Seeking a reward, Seeking a return. To inquire into the self, Into the mind, Into the nature of living, One has to see the danger of the seeking. Seeking implies a direction. Where there is direction, There is only concentration. And only when a mind has no direction, The mind is able to give attention fully. And only a mind without direction can observe all directions, All the movement of thoughts. Just like when one is reading a map, If one has a place to go to, One won't see the total map. Unless one has no place to go to, No directions, One can see the total map. It is similar to the self-inquiry. If the mind is seeking, The mind can't observe because the reward, The pleasure itself, Already dominates the mind. All kinds of ambition, Motivation are all in that direction. The mind is concentrating on something, To achieve something, To get something. When the mind is lost, Until the mind really drops any direction. So the mind can really observe freely.