Collectedness (samādhi) beyond focus, in its 3 aspects: the attentional, the ethical and the flexible. Using water metaphors and the simile of the goldsmith (AN 3.101/102).
It is natural and right to take reality as independently real, but every perception is the best guess of what reality is. We know a prediction, rather than a fact. This invites a freedom to shape our self and world towards an ethical liberation.
