Trance/hypnosis is OK, in terms of it being without conflict. "Concentration" is "NOT OK" because concentration is a FALSE concept, it does not really exist because there is effort in it, so the horizontal conflict (the concentrator trying to be concentrated). What goes by the name of "concentration" is a struggle, although the struggle of "concentration" can maybe change into hypnosis (but those two cannot exist at the same time).

The Universe does not have to strain Itself, It doesn't make any effort at all. It does not know any effort.

Formerly there was a thought that it's wrong that some sound escaped, like a sound of a "car", oh, it escaped me! (bloody hell! :). But it's ONE SOUND OF NOTHING. It's undivided. The sound of a car is only a concept for an object (subject-object). There is no "sound of "car" in Unitary Perception, except with the whole movement of Nothing, one unitary movement. There IS no "distraction" :) 

I don't know if there's really an object like a "car" or not, I don't know anything :) It DOES NOT MATTER, I don't have to USE the bloody car now ;) When we are USING things, the knowledge is USEFUL, otherwise, not!

The "shepherds" want to control it, but it cannot be controlled.

In fact it doesn't matter if it goes away or comes back, if there is a "trance"/hypnosis or not bc in trance there is no horizontal conflict (the split into subject-object) either, so It can go in and out. Nothingness - Universe. Nothingness - Universe.

The mind has to go where it wants, like the wind.

The key thing is that there is no attempt to control anything, no "controller", it flows unobstructed. The "trance"/hypnosis is not a problem! The problem is to fight it, to choose "this" (like "UP") over something "else" (like "trance"/"hypnosis")..

 UP, Zazen, Dhjana, Yoga, etc. is not really an "attempt" at anything. "Attempt" suggests a positive action. But there is no knowledge of attempting anything and no counting on anything.

 The best place for the monks without a monastery to be found by UP, Dhjana, Yoga, etc. is to let everything go and be completely silent and still without any effort at all, not being occupied by anything at all, not trying anything, without any expectation, not for a goal, not on any purpose.

If someone asked me today what is "UP", "Zen", "God", "Dhjana", "Yoga"etc. i could say "a yoke for an ass" :) And it might be the best answer, I don't know :)

But it's a good answer only for the "monks without a monastery"..

 UP cannot be SUSTAINED (on purpose).

It's bc any purpose is thought/ hypnosis/ trance.. Therefore UP can only happen by Itself, completely spontanously (and K said that ofc), when the purpose, all effort, knowledge, EVERYTHING drops (ALL BY ITSELF).

That is the Second Awakening that sometimes happens, like 20% of the time maybe, a few time on a walk, when one is busy, cause life is damn busy one has to functionally work for money.

Remember our last conversation in the forest about UP? We were wrong, no? You see there is no distraction. You said "it's hard to be in it, it gets lost very fast". It is so. But it's not because one is not TRYING UP hard enough!!! :) I would say it's because one is just busy with various thought stuff (which is hypnosis). This hypnosis can be working (purpose, focus, direction, effort), "trying UP" :), planning, worrying (hypnosis/trance), all of the BS that the brain is clogged with is just C.

B is the Second Awakening that sometimes happens all by itself. It CANNOT be sustained, as seemingly Ruben intended in the main definition, it might have been his slip up or he didn't intended it, only I and I guess many many folks understand it this way, cause thought means direction, effort (only positive). Thought cannot be negative.

But it can read read all the BS, study, study, "try UP" like a sheep :) UNTIL all the burden drops by itself because it's understood that it's all a yoke for an ass :) This is the revolution that K and M. Eckhart were teaching. First lose all the BS (happens all by itself, (thought dies by thought" as K and Stachura put it) and that at the same time = the Second Awakening, it happens ALL by itself. Thought has NOTHING to do with it :) Thought can only think think think (about anything). 

It's hard to explain only bc its very very simple, and thought is complication. That's why thought cannot get it, ever.