CHAMPIONS OF LIFE ...WHAT THEY SAID - 3

CONCENTRATION- How to do?

As a Fletcher makes striagth his arrow, a wise man makes straigth his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard, difficult to hold back . let the wise man guard his thought. Thoughts well guarded bring  happiness.......Gautama Buddha

Nature shows us constantly that at the back of ever action there should be a great repose, This holds good from the minutest growth tho that most powerful Tornado I should be also with us not only in the simple, daily duties , but in all things up to the most intense activity possible to man...

How can we expect repose of mind when we have not even repose of muscle?...

True concentration of mind means the ability to drop subject but that centred upon.Tell a man to concentrate his mind on a difficult problem until he has worked it out- he will clench his fist, tighten his throat, hold his teeth hard together, and contract nobody knows how many more muscles in his body, burning and wasting fuel in a hundred or more places where it should be saved This not consctutrtion.Concentration means the focusing of a force; and when the mathematical faculty of the brain alone should be at work , the force is not focused if it is at the same time flying over all other parts of the body is useless strain of innumerable muscles----Annie payyson call.

First began the still of mind and soul. The very activity of the brain may make a man a bad listener, and listening was our goal. The intellect needs to learn how to be still, no less than the body, if it is to concentrate all its powers. A single and sustained attention to God is the crux of The whole matter.

The preparation may take long. It is work persisting in until it  has gained its end, until mind and soul are silent unto God. Thus  we pass to the centre of our silence.The will is at its highest activity. As an insect poised in the air, seemingly motionless, with wings in such rapid motion that they are invisible, is all the while sustained by its resistance to the air, so the will  in this listening is not passive. It holds fast to its rest in God by sustained resistance to all that would drag it down or invade its silence. This far from making the mind a blank.It is  the filling of the mind with God to the exclusion of all else. Not in words, nor visions, nor signs, did we look for the communications of God....Only we knew God and we knew that we knew Him---Quaker practice of Silence.

For the extremely energetic, concentration is near. Disease mental laziness, doubt , cesstion, false perception , non attaining concentration, and falling away from the state when obtained are the obstructing distractioins. Grief , mental distress, tremor of the body, irregular breathing, accompany non retention of concentration. To remedy this practice of one subject should be made.__ Patanjali yoga .