Cultivating Mindfulness In Daily Life

Whether you're bringing mindfulness to your work or in your everyday life, we know it's not difficult but it's also not easy. Because it's not easy to pay attention with intention, to be kind and friendly all the time, to show restraint and not conceit, to be insightful. The aspiration to cultivate the intention to pay attention matters as much as your practice. It's what drives us to sit. But how do we stay? Cultivating mindful behavior whether on the cushion or in life takes practice. You in?

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You So finding a comfortable posture that will support you for the next 10 minutes where you can come to stillness.

Kind of a relaxed stillness that's also awake,

Alert,

Settling into the present moment,

Whatever you're noticing.

Bringing new tension to the breath.

Gentle but committed attention.

And whenever you're noticing whatever is arising,

Whether it's sensations in the body or sounds in the room or thoughts in the mind or emotions in the mind and heart,

Can you see these as just arising and passing away,

Nothing personal.

You Can you even relate to whatever is arising with a kind of warmth,

A kindness,

Welcoming whatever is here.

You And relaxed and kind attention to your own experience.

Being friendly by habit.

Friendly to your own experience so that that attitude of mind,

Attitude of heart can become more of a default mode out in the world.

You You In my experience,

The level of friendliness with which I am able to meet my own experience is the measure of friendliness I can meet.

The experiences in the world,

My my friends,

My family,

My colleagues.

All of you.

You.

And to the extent that that friendliness isn't.

Available,

Can we meet that too with friendliness?

Oh,

Friendliness just isn't here right now.

And that's OK,

Too.

Can that be OK to you?

You.

You.

Maybe just taking the last few seconds of our sit together to be grateful to yourself.

For the practice,

For your willingness to practice.