how to conecentrate mind for meditation?

Question

i wanna concentarte my mind on onething but i could not do this, when i am trying to this my mind plays a huge amount of things, can you please help me ?

Answer 1

There is a mediation book at the end of the Dalai Lama's book an Open Heart. It says it is basically the most basic form of meditation. I will transcribe this, and you'll have to live with the errors, I can type fast, but I can't proofread fast. This technique is basically an introverted concentration technique.

“Chapter 12: The nine stages of calm abiding meditation

Whatever your object of meditation, whether it be the nature of your mind or the image of the Buddha, you go through nine stages in the development of calm abiding.

The First Stage:
The first stage involves placing the mind on its object of concentration. This state is called placement. At this stage you have difficulty remaining concentrated for more than a brief moment and feel that your mental distractions have increased. You often drift away from the object. sometimes forgetting it completely. You spend more time on other thought and have to devote great effort to bringing you mind back to the object.

The Second Stage:
When you are able to increase the length of time that you remain focused on your chosen object to a few minutes, you have attained the second stage. This stage is called continual placement. Your periods of distraction are still greater than your periods of concentration, but you do experience fleeting moments of focused mental stillness.

The Third Stage:
Eventually you become able to immediately catch your mind as it becomes distracted and reestablish focus. This is the third stage, re-placement

The Fourth Stage:
By the fourth stage, called close placement, you have developed mindfulness to the extent that you of not lose focus of your object of concentration. However, this is when you become vulnerable to intervals of intense laxity and excitement. The main antidote is the awareness that you are experiencing them. As you are able to apply antidotes to the more obvious manifestations of laxity arising.

The Fifth Stage:
The fifth state is disciplining. In this stage introspection is used to identity subtle laxity and to apply its antidotes. Again, the antidote is your awareness of this subtle laxity.

The Sixth Stage:
By the sixth stage, pacification, subtle laxity no longer arises. Emphasis is this placed on applying the antidote to subtle excitement. Your introspection must be powered, as the obstacle is more subtle.

The Seventh Stage:
When, through continual and concerted effort, you have managed to keep subtle forms of laxity and excitement from arising, your mind does not need to be overly vigilant. The seventh stage, thorough pacification, has been attained.

The Eighth Stage:
When, with some initial exertion, you can place your mind on its objects without the slightest experience of laxity of excitement, you have attained the eighth stage. We call this single pointed.

The Ninth Stage:
The ninth stage, balanced placement, is attained when your mind remains placed on its object effortlessly, for as long as you wish. True calm abiding is achieved after attaining the ninth stage, by continuing to meditate with single pointed concentration until you experience a blissful pliancy of body and mine.

It is important to maintain a skillful balance in your daily practice between the application of single-pointed concentration and analysis. If you focus too much on perfecting your single-pointed concentration, your analytical ability may be undermined. On the other hand, if you are too concerned with analyzing, you may undermine your ability to cultivate steadiness, to remain focused for a prolonged period of time. You must work at finding an equilibrium between the application of calm abiding and analysis.”

He says it should take several years, but if you really wanted to and practiced every day you could get to the final stage in six months. At least in regards to the first step, he is being very specific about what the mind does, which in my book lends a great deal of credibility. He isn’t using vague psycho-babble like self help books. I may not believe in reincarnation, but scientific evidence has demonstrated there is a significant state change when a person, a trained monk, is meditating. And their brains are different in several areas. This is one of the major techniques they employ to get to that state.

Answer 2

I did this while I was practicing martial arts.

Close you eyes and sit in a comfortable chair. It really does not matter if you stay in loud or quiet room. I used that time to draw pictures of my movements. Find the way and learn how to picture, but only that picture. Everything is black and you only see the movement, you are imagining, but use the concentration to see the total movement.

In your case, you can do two things.

1. You can close your eyes and picture about things or let your mind roam around and try to figure what you are seeing. It is hard to grab the entire picture and it will take some sort of concentration to know what you are doing.

2. You can close your eyes and picture specific things that you want to do in next minute or hours later. Try to imagine. Picture it. Try to see the picture as if you are seeing it for real.

I don't do this stuff anymore since I feel I'm constraining my thoughts and mind. I want to let my mind wonder as much as it can. I want it to be a wild horse that has no limitation. I do lose my concentration many times, but I can freely think of new things and imagination grows. I think I need to "meditate" soon to grab my concentration, but who knows.

Answer 3

1. Concentration of mind at one point is against the mind mechanism and it is highly hazardous. So, it is requested to stop concentration and do the meditatation which is as per mind mechanism.
2.Just sit in comfortable posture or lie down in let go posture in lonely room and leave your body and mind to relax and be witness of your thoughts(which is comprising of past and future ) /surroundings/ your body for one hour daily.
Do this for 3 months regularly and certainly you will be benifited in the form of internal peace then you can continue for whole life. This will tranform you internally and it will be reflected in your behaviour as well as in life.
3.Since this is a based on natural process so there is no chance of harm from this meditation technique.
4.Finally I can say that " Concentration is result of meditation not vice versa".

Answer 4

specific, its completely conventional. in specific situations commencing by employing having some thing to concentration on like an merchandise or candle flame can help. As techniques upward thrust up don't get caught up in thinking you're doing it incorrect or judging your self for having them. only brush aside them and positioned across your interest back to respiration or the object. i all started meditating a protracted time in the past employing an perception guided meditation dvd. It helped me get all started. right this moment i could locate that extra distracting then useful yet i think of countless issues paintings for various human beings at distinctive tiers so its some thing you need to evaluate. it ought to experience problematic at first yet i think of its some thing that truly reenergizes, grounds, and refreshes me now and enables me save peace and attitude. only right desires.

Answer 5

sometimes it helps to focus on a single word and repeat it.