Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way – a first-order, first-person experience – rather than filtered through the mind of another.
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that’s compounded by a factor of trillions.
Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?