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he asks every disciple what he is seeing. Somebody says, "I see the tree and the sky and the sun rising." Somebody says, "I see the tree, the branches, the birds on the tree." And this way he goes on.
And then he comes to his chief disciple, Arjuna, and he asks, "What do you see?"
Arjuna says, "I can't see anything -- just the target."
And Dronacharya said, "Only you can be a great archer."
Concentration is a narrowing of consciousness. A concentrated mind becomes very, very insensitive towards everything else.
This is meditation: becoming aware of all that is happening, without any choice, just choicelessly aware.
I HEAR THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
THE SUN IS WARM, THE WIND IS MILD, WILLOWS ARE GREEN ALONG THE SHORE.
HERE NO BULL CAN HIDE!
In such a sensitivity, how can the bull hide? The bull can hide if you are concentrated in one direction; then there are many directions in which the bull can hide. But when you are not concentrated in any direction, just open to all directions, how can the bull hide? A beautiful sutra! Now there is no possibility, because there is not a single corner which is outside your consciousness. There is no hiding place.
Through concentration you can avoid. You become alert about one thing at the cost of a thousand and one other things. In meditation, you are simply aware without any bracketing. You don't put anything aside. You are simply available. If the nightingale sings, you are available. If the sun is felt, touches you on the body and you feel the warmth, you are available. If the wind passes by, you feel it, you are available. A child cries, a dog barks; you are simply aware. You don't have any object.
Concentration is objective. Meditation has no object to it. And in this choiceless awareness, mind disappears -- because mind can remain only if consciousness is narrow. If the consciousness is wide, wide open, the mind cannot exist. Mind can exist only with choice.
You say: This singing of the nightingale is beautiful. In that moment, all else is excluded -- mind has come in.
Let me tell you in this way: Mind is a narrowing state of consciousness,
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