Everyone knows the feeling when the mind is disturbed and when the eyes as a typewriter always return to the beginning of the same sentence.
It’s also a familiar feeling for many when the mind is slowly floating somewhere far away as someone continues to tell boring stories.
Likewise, everyone knows how tiring and dangerous it can be when the other person holds the wheel while his mind is elsewhere.
Now, if your mind has perfected its self-exclusion while your husband, wife or colleague continues to tell boring stories, and if this doesn’t end painfully for you or others, then that’s great!
However, there are many moments in our lives when a lack of concentration costs us sadness, anger or even hidden greed and when it is actually better for us and others when we are more present. It would definitely be less strenuous if our mind worked more directly and faster without repeating boring actions over and over again.
Life is not about stepping on gas, stacking a wardrobe, getting a “like” or paying attention to “non-likes”. (especially other people’s dislikes should not occupy our time and our mind at all.)
Between every new morning and every night, every human being has the opportunity to domesticate his animal nature and that average, simple part of our mind.
When man manages to transcend that lower part of the mind, then he reveals that infinite, pure nature of human existence. But before that he will be able to spread peace in his daily top priorities, in the house, in the office, on the street, in public transport, in the supermarket, on the high way.
So, the practice of concentration or detaching mind means nothing else then collecting mind.