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You make problem, you have problem
The real meditation is how you live your life.
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.
I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.
There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.
A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual “truth.”
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.