Concentration: One Point of Force Principle - (2907)

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Principle

Concentration works on the principle of bringing force to one point. Hence the term associated with concentration is one-pointedness.

If we have a sharpened spike and we press down on it we can easily drive it into the ground. This is becasue the sharpened spike has been sharpened to a point and nearly all the downward force that we apply goes directly to that one point and something happens.

If the spike is not sharpened to a point then the downward force that we apply goes to a flat surface that is spread out and it will be really difficult to drive a blunt spike into the ground.

So the same principle applies to our mind and will. Our will is our driving force and our mind is the spike, that is the instrument that channels or organises our will. So one-pointedness is a matter of our mind. 

When we concentrate our mind all of our will and energy and also consciousness is applied and our chances of a result or of something happening increases many fold.

We often can not penetrate into the ego or our subconsciousness or we can not pray profoundly because we lack concentration. The lack of concentration keeps us on the surface of everything and knowing or experiencing very little.

End (2907).