Focus

To be able to focus in a rapidly unfocused society is a great benefit. Practice is a form of creating focus in daily life. Setting the goal, the cause, which underlies all thought and action in life, is an essential step to developing a practice and maintaining focus. One cause, for example, could be to devote oneself to helping other human beings to improve their lives. Then one's practice every day would be focused by responding to the world with the goal of increasing the general quality of life in each moment of the day. Those who set a goal of being rich, for example, often practice the accumulation of money every day. That is also their focus. The difference in these goals and practices is simple. The person who focuses his practice in increasing the general quality of life on the planet is rewarded in ways money can never buy. The person who focuses their practice on being rich is eventually rewarded with great physical comfort, but often suffers from an isolation from other life on the planet. These are choices. The rare person who can accumulate wealth and be open to the Universe is indeed fortunate and can do great good.