Taking Down the Scaffolding of Thought

[Happy Buddha]

Thanks Guys, nice to get some responses - what I like to remind myself of and the people on the courses is that mindfulness is the container of everything as well as being a practice.

I say this because I think it is often missed or not understood. What I really mean is that though we teach mindfulness as a practice and a means of increasing our mindfulness it is also true and in my opinion crucial to see that mindfulness already IS - try not being mindful now? Impossible isn't it.

Mindfulness then is both the practice of noticing the contents whilst being the noticing itself - or awareness. If we do not learn to rest in mindfulness as awareness and always "practising" we are never at rest. It is like frantically running around looking for safe ground whilst it is under our feet, and has been all the time.

be well and happy,

[JonW]

"It is like frantically running around looking for safe ground whilst it is under our feet, and has been all the time."
Or, to put it another way, like a fish swimming around in search of water. It's right there in front of us. No striving required. We just need to notice it. After a while it becomes virtually impossible to unnotice it.

[Happy Buddha]

Well said...Sir

[BioSattva]

I love the scaffolding analogy. I'm going to 'nick' that!