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# Re: Concentration and the Step I Work

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- Subject: Re: Concentration and the Step I Work
- From: "forestofsymbols" <forestofsymbols@...>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 01:43:54 -0000
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    Alan wrote:

    > The student can find something that he can concentrate intently
    on.
    > If all else fails, watch your favorite movie. Try to keep in mind
    > that you are wanting to observe your surroundings. Try and stay
    > aware of them. At some point, you will lose your surroundings and
    > become abosrbed in what you are doing. Eventually you will "snap
    > out" of this state of intense focus, or the movie (or activity)
    will
    > end. Now think back to how focused you were on what you were
    doing.
    > That is what you are trying to achieve. Nothing else mattered but
    > that one thing. You need be able to achieve this with any thought
    > and activity that you choose.

    I wonder about that. Bardon writes "[a]bove all, one ought to
    accustom oneself to achieve whatever one does with *full
    consciousness*, whether in professional work or in private,
    regardless whether the point is a big one or a trifle." And during
    the thought observation instructions, he writes "The main point is
    *not to forget yourself*, not to lose the train of thoughts, but to
    pursue it attentively." (Emphasis mine).

    It sounds like from your description, concentration sounds like
    complete absorption into the subject observed; i.e. identification.
    I'm not sure that's the state aimed for because then there is no
    control. The music plays you, as some musicians say rather than the
    other way around.

    mj

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