Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition

TRADITIONAL POSTURES

9. View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow.

When mindful, you don’t play that game. You just notice exactly what arises in the mind, then you notice the next thing. “Ah, this… and this… and now this.” It is really very simple.

If you explode the illusion of that one concept, your whole universe changes. Don’t expect to be able to do this overnight, though. You spent your whole life building up that concept, reinforcing it with every thought, word, and deed over all those years. It is not going to evaporate instantly. But it will pass if you give it enough time and attent

Your objective is to achieve a posture in which you can sit for the entire session without moving at all.

Meditation: Why Bother?

OUR GOAL

You can learn to see the continuous flow of all conditioned things. You can. It is just a matter of time and training.

In mindfulness, one is an unbiased observer whose sole job is to keep track of the constantly passing show of the universe within.