We have a certain amount of
breath granted daily and it
fuels our being, enabling
us to do our daily activities by using
our minds to orchestrate our life
and tend our interest, guiding us to
be productive.
We operate by investing our attention
in what we want to do, what
we want to accomplish, what we
are interested in or what we want to
know. Whatever you put your mind on, or pay attention to,
you think about and become or get. You are your attention!
This phenomena “attention spend”, is a driving force of
our commercialized world. Billions of dollars are being invested
to find the best and most seductive ways to attract
our attention so that we will pay attention and then they
will get us to buy or do what being pitched to us.
We share our attention so freely with others, mostly unaware
of how it is being manipulated and depleted by them.
Our precious is used up, draining us into a near-comatose
state. We vegetate in front of TV or cruise the internet for
hours, bombarding ourselves with radiation, only to then
go and spend our hard-earned cash buying unnecessary
stuff, hoping to achieve that promised ‘happiness’.
Products are glamorized so that we are encouraged to desire
things we don’t even need. We are made to believe that
we must have this or that to keep up with the rest of the
up scaled crowed. You have to have the best, we want the
best, while the once who really benefit are the advertisers,
merchants and their agents.
It is their self-interest and bank accounts which are inflated,
now a days in the millions, while our attention is
being is spend so too our earnings.
We first have to become aware of this cleaver manipulation
and understand and realize that it is not those external
purchases or pleasures that will give us real happiness. It is
in our innate nature, as a part of the manifested Creation,
to seek for the Whole from where we manifested. We need
an antidote so that we can retrieve our attention, our focus,
our energy from external and place it back on our Self.
Meditation is the only sure antidote. It is a natural process
of connecting our self with the Divine within. Our
mind is so subtle that only something even more subtle can
capture and hold our attention, to guide our energy back
within. This is a true spiritual meditation process, which
has been practiced in exactly the same manner by all great
souls since time immemorial, to achieve the goal of eternal
inner peace, contentment and enlightenment.
