Even in my wildest of dreams, I didn't
quite expect that I would be told to learn 'de-focusing' :-))
And even that, I had to learn in a very focused way!
And even that, I had to learn in a very focused way!
A toddler keeps staring at something...
that's focus! It doesn't matter if that kid may not
grasp the object stared at ... the grasp being.. objectively or
subjectively... physically or intellectually :-))
What matters is... the toddler is practicing at : focusing, and quite intensely too (maybe quite unawares)...
Later, such focus might even lead to discovery of .......gravity, when an apple falls, ... locomotives, when the lid of a tea kettle blows up... or... who knows, it may lead to deepening of perception, enough to .... take a peek-look at the way “matter” appears and disappears at the speed of 1/10000(total , 21 zeros) of a second!
What matters is... the toddler is practicing at : focusing, and quite intensely too (maybe quite unawares)...
Later, such focus might even lead to discovery of .......gravity, when an apple falls, ... locomotives, when the lid of a tea kettle blows up... or... who knows, it may lead to deepening of perception, enough to .... take a peek-look at the way “matter” appears and disappears at the speed of 1/10000(total , 21 zeros) of a second!
Does a 'thought-process' help us to
focus?.. Oh! Even that 'abstraction' , concept-formation looking at
a 'set' of thoughts... needs an 'alert-focus', taking care that
no-extraneous thought tempts us to make it into a 'jumping into' of
conclusions!
If I weren't focused on the 'purpose'
of that recent demonetizing of 500's/1000's... like the 'mob', I
would have been carried away by the 'emotional-appeal' in a tweet...
supposed to have emanated from the 'handle' of a famous spiritual
Guru... Even if the 'handle' ( id) is genuine, the handler is half
baked dud... He/she suggests, “why not donate that
'unaccounted-currency-notes to a poor fellow, instead of burning?”
... (the poor is not within the tax net... he can exchange it for
new ones !)... Unfortunately, the 'emotion' (habituated sympathy
for any helpless creature, ) takes away our focus from the
basic-concept of 'money' (here, the currency)... Money can represent
the result of somebody's genuine toil, hardwork... the form maybe
currency, but it can't replace an honest produce . Here, the
'black-money' that became a 'paper' due to demonetisation, was a
bogus-money which only inflated the value of goods and services
intended to be 'purchased' with it... Outsourcing a 'hawala' to a
poor man is ... in effect... insulting-poverty-itself
!... One need not 'grasp' these concepts... Just try the
simple alternative: “donate fresh, new and genuine currency ,
instead!”
When our eyes gets used too much, to
focus at anything that we see, and when data focus via eyes is denied
entry by some thought that take us on a
'international-foreign-flight' ... the alertness and awareness seems
to stagnate a little... that's when a conscious de-focusing of eyes
seems to matter a lot... (And I guess, when the person who said
'defocus' said it sternly.... it did mean that we are looking at a
higher rung on the ladder of that eight-limbed climb of union aspect
, the yoga, in the arena called spirituality :-))
for focus , yours,
psn (12th November, 2016
