My teacher Shinzen Young often uses this phrase to identify our basic strategy when building internal awareness of sensory phenomena (anything we think, feel, notice in the body-mind.) Having this intention to ‘divide and conquer’, can be a great aid in bringing mindfulness to difficult emotional or physical experiences. Breaking down our experiences [...]
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Another great exercise to get started with is walking meditation. In this practice we bring mindfulness to the simplest act of human locomotion, walking. I will explain one method of it here, as taught to me in the Vipassana tradition. I am sure there are other ways of approaching this practice from various lineages.
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Mindfulness meditation practice is largely non-conceptual. Its not about thinking and creating an idea about what we should and shouldn’t be doing, it is about engaging in practice itself; having a direct experience of the object of our meditation, not distorting it with our thoughts, beliefs and expectations. As Sri K. Pattabhi Jois says (in [...]
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If we see clearly, with our mindfulness awareness, the world, both inner and outer, with a balanced repose grounded in non-interference, we make some interesting discoveries. One of these is impermanence (anicca in Pali), known in Buddhism as one of three marks of existence. The other two are suffering (dukkha) and not-self (anatta).
After we have [...]
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