How do i focus on things more?

Dear, 

Present is there. You don’t need to focus on it. A better question would be, ‘How to do away with the thoughts of what is not present. How to get rid of the past and the future. Don’t ask, ‘How do I get into the present?’ The present is anyway there. The question must be, ‘How do I get rid of the thoughts of past and future.’ That must be the question. 

You think of the past and the future only when the thought arises. Thought is stimulated only by an external stimulus. Look carefully at your life and see where do these stimuli come from, and do away with them. Thought does not just get up and starts running on its own. A limitation of thought is that it needs somebody poking at you from outside. 

Be with objects or people who help you to remain centered in the now. 

If you make a circle of fearful people around you, they will always take you to the future. You may be alright, light, happy and your friend will come to you and say, ‘Just twelve days to go for the exam.’ And you are gone. And he is saying that because he is your friend, he is your well-wisher. So he is trying to warn you. Even if he doesn’t say, his face has become so long that you can understand. Just by looking at his face, you will also become long-faced. Stay away from such people or phone calls, people who keep warning you all the time. Avoid these phone calls. Avoid those who make you agitated. 

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