Mindful Breathing
Mindfulness is the foundation of our practice. Mindfulness can be defined as paying attention to present moment experience, intentionally and nonjudgmentally. It includes qualities of focus, equanimity, and curiosity, which facilitate clear seeing and discernment. Mindfulness has the quality of not grasping onto any experience and not pushing any experience away. Instead, you are present with whatever arises and can gently guide attention to a chosen focus until you are absorbed in that and everything else fades to the background. In this meditation, you’ll also use mindfulness of breathing as a portal to recognize that within which the experience of breathing arises, which is like a vast openness within which all experiences arise and into which they dissolve. Resting AS that openness is a profound liberation, in which peace is ever present, underneath the fluctuations of the mind, emotions, and sensations.
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