Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Daily Dharma: Mindfulness in Plain English


Yesterday's Daily Dharma from Tricycle:

Mindfulness in Plain English

Mindfulness is present-time awareness. It takes place in the here and now. It is the observance of what is happening right now, in the present moment. It stays forever in the present, perpetually on the crest of the ongoing wave of passing time.

If you are remembering your second-grade teacher, that is memory. When you then become aware that you are remembering your second-grade teacher, that is mindfulness. If you then conceptualize that process and say to yourself, "Oh, I am remembering," that is thinking.

~ Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English


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