Concentration

AA wrote: Thank you Sabina! and thank you for sending me all reminders how to be more conscious in this stressed reality. Wish you a great summer. 

« If we are concentrated, life is deep, and we have more joy and stability. « 

                                                                 Thich Nhat Hanh

We can call it what we want: concentration, awareness, or mindfulness – it’s all about being right Here, right Now. It’s about being there for Life.

I write, and I think of nothing else. My hand moves the pen over the paper, forming words and sentences, sent out from my mind. Nothing else enters my mind at this very moment, and if thoughts about today’s dinner or my mother’s health condition claim for attention, I just gently let them go. 

Why is there this resistance to living life mindfully, to be fully concentrated and just do one thing at a time? 

Of course, there is pure forgetfulness. But I must admit, that sometimes I just want to indulge in the play of thoughts in my head, in their coming and going, in the surprises they serve me. The uncontrolled mind is like a great sorcerer, and it’s so easy to become enchanted by its tricks. However, there is a price to pay: he beckons me away from Life. I am no longer just right Here, right Now, and that’s the only moment that Life is available.

Let’s break this spell. Life itself, in this very moment, has much more exciting surprises in stock for us then the sorcerer called Our Uncontrolled Mind. 

Let’s get in charge of our own minds again, and come back to Life.