Without Full Attention, Concentration Creates Disorder

**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

The mind is trapped in the known.

Any small disturbance creates fear,

Which makes the mind cling to the known more.

To give full attention to our life is to learn and observe this loop the mind is trapped in.

Note the details of the things,

But the loop,

The total movement of thoughts that leads the mind into such a small corner,

Fragment.

This awareness of the total movement of thoughts without being carried away by the content of thoughts is to give full attention.

If the mind is so interested in the content of the thoughts,

The mind can't really give attention.

Because the very curiosity or wanting to know this kind of inquisitiveness about the content of thoughts bring about concentration.

When the mind is in concentration,

The mind actually is excluding other things.

So the very concentration implies that the mind is trapped in a fragment.

Giving full attention means that the mind must observe this concentration as this order of the mind.

The concentration creates all kinds of fragments and all of these fragments are disconnected from each other.

So there is a division,

Therefore conflict between the fragments,

Which is a source of all kinds of mental sufferings,

Challenges of human beings,

From the individual ones,

Personal ones,

To the societal ones.