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even closer. He said, "I can only see the bird."
The master has said that you have to make the target the bird's right eye.
The other said, "I can see both the bird's eyes."
Arjuna was the only one who said, "I don't see anything except the right eye."
This is one-pointedness.
Arjuna became his master's most important disciple, a great archer.
So one-pointedness is needed in many things, but it is not meditation. It is putting your mind together in one narrow dimension -- linear, just in a line.
In science it is useful, but it is not meditation.
Meditation is a state of no-mind.
Meditation means the mind has stopped. Just you are, pure consciousness, simple awareness; all the dimensions are available to you. So it is just the opposite of concentration.
You are asking what it means to space out. You all know it.
When you are doing something and you are not there, that is spacing out. It is against concentration. It is against meditation. It is just a wandering mind.
If you are chopping wood and thinking of a film star, you are spaced out. And it is dangerous: you may chop one of your legs. You are not where you are supposed to be.
Even in such sacred moments when you are making love to your beloved, you are not there. The woman is there, but her mind is also far away. So two bodies are going through a gymnastics. Of course it is not productive of any contentment. You both come out of it frustrated, cheated. Something went wrong.
The man immediately turns to the other side, pulls over the blanket, and goes to sleep. The woman cries, weeps, because such a moment... and nothing comes out of it. The whole day she has been waiting, that her lover will be coming; but when he was making love, she was thinking of Muhammad Ali the Great.
So whenever two persons are making love, there is at least a crowd. The man is thinking of Marilyn Monroe, the woman is thinking of Muhammad Ali, and these pictures in the mind go on changing. And on the margin they are trying to make love.
Why unnecessarily harass each other? If this is the situation in love, what will be the situation
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