Friday, November 02, 2007
I read descriptions of mindfulness and they all mention something like this: Give yourself fully to the task. Do one thing at a time. And so on.
How to live this out?
For me it means things like this: Not surfing and reading email while I eat my breakfast—just eat. Not listening to music while driving in the car—just drive. It's a different way to live and I notice very slowly over time, that on the days when I live that way, my mind is more at peace. I'm happier.
In a very nice writeup of the Eightfold Path from Buddhism, section 7 is on mindfulness. The concepts described in the Eightfold Path are very practical and helpful to me.
How to live this out?
For me it means things like this: Not surfing and reading email while I eat my breakfast—just eat. Not listening to music while driving in the car—just drive. It's a different way to live and I notice very slowly over time, that on the days when I live that way, my mind is more at peace. I'm happier.
In a very nice writeup of the Eightfold Path from Buddhism, section 7 is on mindfulness. The concepts described in the Eightfold Path are very practical and helpful to me.
# posted by goldpython @ 9:44 PM 
