Loving Awareness

Now that everyone and everything is mindful (except the federal government), is mindfulness diluted? I was starting to wonder so I’m digging into the question, starting with, “What is mindfulness, or ‘wise mindfulness’?” which is the next step on the Path.

Transcript

So finding your version of stillness right here,

Right now,

Whatever that is.

Maybe you're sitting.

Maybe you're standing.

Maybe you're lying down.

Maybe you're in Tadasana or Savasana or some other pose.

And first thing is just to come to your anchor,

Your home base,

Your refuge.

Is that the breath?

Or is that sound?

Choosing and then letting the whole mind-body just settle and attend at that place of refuge.

And then just beginning to look in and see,

Well,

How am I right now?

What's happening right now?

How's my heart?

What's going on in the mind?

Are there lots of thoughts?

Is there emotion?

Is there anything I can let go of?

Is there anything I can let go of?

Is there anything I can let go of?

Can I let go of everything?

Can we just be loving witnesses to whatever is happening without getting entangled?

Can we let our awareness be that loving adult supervision in a room full of unruly thoughts and with our overworked and over-worried hearts?

Let this beautiful practice of mindfulness just provide the insight that can help us to understand and to be the loving humans that we already are.

Reviews

Thank you for the gentle cues and the long silences to sit with them.