Concentration in Deepening Awareness

This session revisits the theme of concentration and explores the difficulty many practitioners face in maintaining sustained focus. The group reflects on how discipline, distraction, and preference for spacious or less structured practices can subtly erode the commitment to concentration. There is discussion around how avoidance can appear in refined forms, including over-relying on comfort, ambiguity, or flow-based approaches. Participants share observations about the internal resistance to effort and how this impacts depth and consistency in practice. The conversation addresses how concentration supports the stabilisation of awareness, and how to work skilfully with phases of drift or disinterest. Perspectives are offered on how to re-engage with structure without rigidity, and how to recognise avoidance when it’s dressed as freedom or softness.

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