What if that magnifying
glass, with which we try to burn a piece of cotton focusing that
bright sunlight of the mid-day, ... what if that glass were like
some thin polythene paper, collapsing too often, getting deflated too
often, or.. remaining unsteady-enough to disallow a continued
focus/concentration of that sunlight? Perhaps, we would do
'something' to ...'somehow' hold that focus continuously(the
'crystallisation' conceptually), at least long enough to get the heat
intense enough to formulate a spark into that cotton ball, the straw,
the paper.. or whatever we are trying to ignite...
Kids 'keep reading the
school text book' several times even... but find it so difficult to
'find-out' as to what would be the answer to the question.. that
question which they 'know-for-sure' was based only-on-something that
was from that 'portion' ticked off carefully by the teacher, for that
'exam'..
That is about a
little-fortunate kids who remember the whole of it, but are unable to correlate the question with the relevant answer... Yet others, do
not remember anything at all (they went through the text several
times, but the text did not ever 'go-through-them'!).. A rare few
kids, never bother to even glance through that inanimate printed form
of alphabets in the text book, but are quite confident about how to
'tackle' with any question, that could come-up from what the teacher
explained in the class, quoting that text! Perhaps, if that teacher
is 'wise enough', that 'own-words-wala' answer might fetch slightly
better marks even, than the 'copy-paste via memory'!
I was wondering, .. and
still keep wondering... (yes, right through that kid age), about the
know-how of ... that short-cut ... where, the grasp is going to be
instantaneous, obviating that futile exercise of meaningless mugging
of bare texts! Aadi Shankara's words, 'nahi nahi rakshati' in Bhaja
Govindam seemed to reassure that this seeking for a short-cut is not
totally wrong!
While the focus itself
being so firm, and therefore the focal length rendered 'dependable',
in the case of a magnifying glass, or even that lens of a camera (ah!
When the lens is firm, we can do something more about the adjustable
length of that focus, by adjusting the length of that 'lens-pair'
itself,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Zoom_prinzip.gif
)
With all this circus about
'focus'.. I was stupefied, when the suggestion was to
somehow-get-rid-of focus of all kinds... and just allow that
'witnessing-aspect' to just 'happen-by-itself', when we were
initiated into a meditative process! And what baffled me was, the
incidental by-product was the better focus, the better
'zoom-technology' (yes, 'better' because, the picture-clarity was not
compromised even), of the mind, when such 'going-out-of-focus' of
mind-itself, was basically aimed at a spiritual-experience!
Obviously, the process becoming even
'reasonably-operational/functional', is going to be so complex that
it requires the utmost simplicity to contain it! Nothingness.. (what
ever it really means!)... The technology transfer of the know-how,
can happen all-by itself, but the chances of losing it are also
'all-by-itself', where as, when done consciously, .. it just stays!
Even the intense-proximity of an experienced+expert teacher could not
bring down the drop-out rate dramatically, where as, the program got
dropped out sooner!
A blog, or a narrative...
that I have decided to de-focus upon, with just this much... I don't
know, what the readers are going to 'make-out-of-it'! It is all
about 'focusing' as an abstract concept, the tools of focus though
complex enough, being merely tools thereof!
Well out-of-focus, yours,
psn(3rd October, 2014)
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