Everyday Mindfulness

That is a fantastically illuminating answer, thank you! I have been thinking about this a bit: I wonder whether the practices are as distinct as I initially thought. I mean, Jon Kabat-Zinn has us just watching our breathing at times yet calls this mindfulness, despite it being the same as what Pema ...

Hello again. I bought 'How To Meditate' by Pema Chodron and I like the book, it fills-in some of the gaps of Full Catastrophe Living (like how, exactly, to be mindful of emotions). She says it is instruction in the Shamatha practice tradition. Is this different to mindfulness? The way I see it (if i...

Thanks, Jon. That is exactly my take - without thinking, in language, we would never have achieved anything! But I still think he means to let go of all thoughts. I'll type the passge verbatim; it's long, so bear with me. P443 in latest edition: "When you look at thoughts as just thoughts, purp...

Hello all. Came a cross a passage in Full Catastrophe Living which says (p443, latest edition, paraphrased a bit): "Your work is seeing and letting go, seeing and letting be," in relation to thoughts. So should we always aim for non-conceptual knowing over thinking? And what exactly IS tha...

Thanks! I might read and 'do' - or 'be' it - again, see what I have missed or not experienced first time round.

I am due to finish this and the CDs in a few weeks. I have not done the yoga at all. I know he says that you don't have to like it just do it but I was absolutely dreading doing this. So I skipped it. And the pointless event calendar stuff. Anyway, what books/programmes would you folks recommend nex...

would imagine we have all at times done this when following a programme. Just continue and try to bring the informal practice in.

I carry a fair bit of guilt around, partly is response to bereavements. I have accepted the losses but carry guilt from my relationships with the people concerned whilst they were alive. I always dreaded the deaths before I had made amends and it has happened. Are there any mindfulness-based resourc...

Right! So the non-judgement for our mindfulness purposes = 1. Being aware of the mind's AUTOMATIC judgements 2. Acknowledging those as just thoughts/judgements and NOT the reality or truth 3. Deciding on wise action (including action to change) or non-action as appropriate, from our viewpoint of min...

A question on this: I understand that we shouldn't strive in our practice - that is not simply being. But when we DO things in the real world and try to bring mindfulness to them do we also let go of goal orientation, then? Say I am cleaning the windows. I want them clean because I ma having house g...