In reading an article on this website the author shared that we should eliminate filters in our perception. He says that belief, family, personality, etc. become filters to seeing with pure awareness.
I noticed that sometimes if we have a certain prior belief or focus such as "all children are happy" - then we may experience the children in your life as happy, which to me is not a bad thing and there is truth in this. So sometimes the filter allows us only to see the good in others. Is having a filter the same as having a focus? I understand that getting closer to the truth requires dropping our filters but do we have to drop our focus or intentions? Do we always have to see everything without a filter? He says that the true meditator is meditating every second of the day. I'm not so sure that I understand this. And do we have to do this to be liberated from suffering?. Can someone help with this?
I noticed that sometimes if we have a certain prior belief or focus such as "all children are happy" - then we may experience the children in your life as happy, which to me is not a bad thing and there is truth in this. So sometimes the filter allows us only to see the good in others. Is having a filter the same as having a focus? I understand that getting closer to the truth requires dropping our filters but do we have to drop our focus or intentions? Do we always have to see everything without a filter? He says that the true meditator is meditating every second of the day. I'm not so sure that I understand this. And do we have to do this to be liberated from suffering?. Can someone help with this?