weirdway

Here's an idea you can play with. Most people think that concentration is something that happens inside the span of a meditation or a contemplation session. They'll say stuff like, "Be quiet, I am trying to concentrate." They're talking about gaining a smidgen of mental focus on a certain topic of contemplation or on a certain aspect of experiencing.

Imagine concentration as something that deepens over many many lifetimes. Your subjectivity will produce and shed many body constructs. You'll live through thousands or millions of years of subjective time and will wear out many body constructs in that time. Now imagine that over that very large span of time you're devoted to some core postulates and you make everything in your life revolve around those postulates. That's what I call total concentration.

Compared to total concentration, the concentration inside the span of a short meditation session is nothing but a tiny blip on the radar. That doesn't mean meditation or contemplation are completely useless, but if you cannot comprehend this grand perspective, your aspiration will be lacking, because your aspiration can only be commensurate with the depth of your insight. And having a superficial and weak aspiration your results and your powers of manifestation will be weak as well. Or put another way, without a grand perspective your power of manifestation will very likely be unconscious and alienated, or 'othered.'

This also brings you much closer to escaping the time altogether. If you think in terms of aeons, then you're much closer to a perspective beyond time than someone who likes to think in terms of hours and second and years. Someone who takes their life one second at a time is a slave to time and is caught up in the minutia of experience, unable to zoom out.

A grand perspective is the middle ground between a small perspective and a perspective beyond parameters. So for most people the development of a grand perspective will be an improvement. Most people have tiny perspectives. As they say, it's like looking at the sky through a straw, lol. That's what a tiny perspective is like. So looking through a fat pipe is a massive improvement and is nothing to scoff at. In this toy metaphor you can just drop the straw. In practical terms your tiny perspective will likely be so ingrained that you will not be able to just dump it. You'll have to first expand your perspective and open up some space. That might take aeons. Eventually you can regain enough mental flexibility to go beyond parameters.