Those who walk on the spiritual path constantly meet have to deal with concepts such as concentration, meditation, working with the emotions and so on. Many practice this, but they do not always understand how to do it correctly and what is the real meaning of these practices.

Today we share with you the wisdom of Master Altai Chi’s Satsangs to his students.

- The main aim of the meditation on the black spot is the development of concentration and attention, of being totally concentrated on the point. What is concentration in general? Is this sensation or mental order? How to feel if one is concentrated or not at the moment of practicing?

- In order to understand it is necessary to see if you are not distracted, if you are concentrated.

- Does the concentration of attention come from the observer? If one concentrates on the purpose, does this mean that this makes the observers grow and that some other quality changes in them?

 - We should distinguish between conscious concentration and identification. For example, if you are identified with the fact that your husband has gone somewhere, this cannot be considered concentration; this is not related to the observer. In this case your attention is governed by the mind and the emotions. If you concentrate on the point and nothing makes you concentrate except from your will, then this is right concentration.

- Are ‘concentration’ and ‘observer’ different concepts?

- Consciousness is ‘the observer’, yet consciousness can be scattered, concentrated, identified, sleeping or awake. This is how it is!

 - As I understand it, one of the indexes of identification is the censorship towards others. Is it like this?

- Negative emotions are compulsorily connected with identification, but in an ordinary person everything occurs in a state of identification. This person is very seldom concentrated.

- When I compare with my “yesterday’s” self’ rather than with others, there is no censorship. Does it mean that also the identification with one’s sense of importance becomes weak and disappears, when one do not compare with others?

- Yes, the less you compare the less the identification.

- Condemning others makes me accumulate negativity, does is it mean that karma grows?

- Yes, of course, if we condemn others harshly, then the bad karma increases, but if we laugh then all becomes normal.

- In society censorship frequently leads us to teaching others: "From my point of view I see that you are making a mistake and that you do not want to hear or understand any advice.”

What in this is censorship and what casual observation?

 - There is normal constructive criticism, that is, when we want to help someone. Yet, when a old women sits and criticize something, of which the person condemned  is totally unaware, then this is grumbling, which does not lead anywhere and is of no use to anyone.

- How to learn to note the censorship towards others and switch on to the state of the observer, so that the knowledge can quietly and patiently be transferred, as it happens with children, rather than being taught?

- It is necessary to see what people are capable of perceiving and to tell them just this. What is the point of telling people what they cannot receive?