Zen practitioners understand the concept of focus.
For example, when washing the dishes, you wash the dishes - that's all you do. You don't distract yourself by thinking about other things.
Or eating a meal. Your immediate task is to eat, nothing else. You concentrate on the food, not television or a book or the computer or your smart phone.
If you have set a goal for something you wish to achieve, you will have an action plan with a timeline set up.
And so, at the appointed time, all you do is focus on the task. Nothing else is allowed to interrupt you.
All possible distractions are turned off or disabled.
By eliminating distractions and concentrating on the task at hand, several things come in to play.
Things are simplified, time goes by quickly, you begin to notice changes [ for the better],unpleasant tasks do not assume the unpleasantness they once had for you.
One small focussed action at a time.
You are being present, not worried about what might have been nor worried about what might happen at some future time.
Burdens get unloaded. A higher state of consciousness takes over. You will experience joy in all of the little things.
It is one way in which you can begin to live the perfect life, one tsk at a time, one hour at a time one day at a time.
I think someone close to me has explained this to me once before! And I wasn't prepared to believe that I could possibly get any joy out of housework! However, maybe ... just maybe if I decide to do the housework and that is ALL I focus on, instead of wishing I could be somewhere else, or doing something else ... then I might find some joy amongst the cobwebs and be satisfied with a job well done. I shall give it a try. Thanks Phil.
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