What is in a look of an infant or toddler!
As I watched this girl from a distance of about 100 meters during a meeting through my camera lens, I was fascinated by her fixed look at what was happening on the stage.
We look to see and comprehend! However a child looks for the sake of being occupied with what is happening. She does not have to think and analyse or frame ideas to comment or criticise. She is free to be taken up in the activity and engaged in its sequence. This is the highest form of inner focus, whereby when we just listen or see or think. We are free to do the only thing that matters which is to be fully involved.
As adults we are prone to be easily distracted! Our thoughts, feelings or judgements or expectations distract our attention!
How wonderful if we can be just listening while we hear or seeing when we watch something! This is an example of focused attention.
One might explain this ability of children to be an infantile form of attention as they had limited life experience to have had a load of insights to distract them while seeing or listening!
Blessed are those who can train their mind to be attentive fully to what is before them! It is possible to subdue the inner traffic in our mind by growing in interior silence and vigilant alertness.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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