By mokshini on Tue, 18 Apr, 2017 - 14:36Last week Vidyadasi led the class and explored what we mean by ‘Mindfulness’ - what qualities are we looking for? In addition to a guided practice and discussion there was time to reflect on some notes & points on the theme of mindfulness:
Mindfulness is not the same as thinking about something. It is more like ‘awareness’.
In mindfulness, we are just ‘being’, not ‘doing’.
These things are ‘doing’: planning, worrying, remembering, replaying, ruminating, comparing, going over, wondering, imagining.
Turn off the autopilot.
‘Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through paying...