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Originally Posted by Yadoula8
All Buddhist training aims to develop concentration.
Try this: Close your eyes and focus on what you see. Then, when your mind wonders, bring it back.
This is direct meditation. You simply choose something to concentrate on, and then when your mind wonders, you bring it back. You can concentrate on whatever you like. Many people stare at a flame. Many focus on their breathing. Buddha said that a great one is to concentrate on the air as is passes below the nostrils when breathing.
According to Buddhist texts, every single time you attempt direct meditation your concentration skill improves.
The idea of meditation is to limit the functions of the mind. But you get better at concentration by concentrating at anything, and as far as I am concerned, I focus on playing (most fit as it is for playing), and I don't find it an issue (if one is not having a psychological problem; then it is an issue for practise also, but the fact remains the same, or there are medications then, like the cocoa butter
).
I am currently training my powers back to play longer and more, plus training my body (to get more energy). I am pretty happy to my focus level, it taking place well and is strong enough; I got that by normal mental work, not by at the same time limiting my mind functions, that's not really good for the gaming mind, that one might like to have more, not less.