herbzet wrote:
> herbzet:
>
> > Takuji:
>
> > > First, how do you exclude one thing from
> > > your consciousness?
>
> > Do you not do that all the time?
> >
> > Example: play a game of chess -- watch the world drop away!
>
> To dilate on this:
>
> I think you may have got hung up on the word "one". I mean,
> exclude any content of conciousness.
>
> Instead of chess, I should stick with the title theme: It's
> time for lunch, stop thinking about what the boss wants!
>
> Is it not a common thing to turn our mind away from this or
> that? "I'm not going to think about that right now" -- Scarlett
> O'hara.
>
> To be sure, some things are easier to drop than others -- "I can't
> stop thinking about it" -- we've all been there. When lunch is
> over, however, it's time to get serious again, right?
>
> To willfully exclude things from conscousness is a bit
> muscular, not the peaceful "letting go" that is so often
> talked about. I imagine some people are better at "letting
> go" than "throwing out", for others the reverse may be true.
>
> I know that at a certain point in late infancy, children are
> better at grasping then letting go. They'll wave their hand
> around with an object in it, a little frustrated: they haven't
> mastered releasing yet.
>
> Think of an actor: at eight o'clock, he or she must put their
> mind in a certain place. Ordinary consciousness must be excluded,
> they have to be someone else.
>
> We have a certain ability to turn our conscousness this way
> and that. Some people more than other, perhaps, some times
> easier than other times, some things easier than other things.
>
> I used to think of concentration as a focusing, like using
> a magnifying glass to concentrate the sunlight on a small
> point. I have found it better to think of concentration
> as: excluding everything from consciousness except what
> you are trying to concentrate on, letting that thing fill
> up your mind.
>
> The point is, one can, to a greater or lesser degree,
> exclude things from consciousness, and this is very
> ordinary. Watch how the mind will throw something up
> to replace what is thrown out!
>
> What's at the bottom of the stack? Is there a bottom?
herbzet has described the concentration as used in
Bushido.
<<Think of an actor: at eight o'clock, he or she must put
their mind in a certain place. Ordinary consciousness
must be excluded, they have to be someone else.>>
<<I have found it better to think of concentration as:
excluding everything from consciousness except what
you are trying to concentrate on, letting that thing fill
up your mind.>>
Tang Huyen
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