Mindfulness of self and world

Post here if you are just starting out with your mindfulness practice. Mindfulness is a really difficult concept to get your head around at first, and it might be that you would benefit from some help from others.
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FeeHutch
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Sat Jun 15, 2013 10:42 am  

Happy Buddha wrote:Hi Guys, I think you both bring up some good points and even whilst offering the course I had my doubts so how about we leave it for now and see what Fee can come up with. Would people mind if I then put up our courses once a month onto the forum. If you are what would be the best page to put it on. For your information we are a not for profit Community Interest company called and our website in mindfulnesscic.co.uk.

thanks, Suryacitta


Hello
I was thinking more about whether this sort of post would sit best in the Beginning forums or elsewhere rather than specifically about whether more online course content would work. :)
What I could do is change the sub forum 'Finding Peace In A Frantic World' to something like 'Mindfulness Courses' and your monthly posts might find a home there?
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:10 am  

That sounds like a good idea Fee.
"Compassion – particularly for yourself – is of overwhelming importance." - Mark Williams, Mindfulness (2011), p117.
"...allow yourself to smile inwardly." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (2005), p436.
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:25 am  

Happy Buddha wrote:Our motivations are not about satisfying our own needs and not about proving anything to ourselves or others in any way.

Indeed - I see charity as the core trait at the heart of healthy human society. It seems to go all way back to our early cooperative survival practices - a group of hunter-gatherers walking in a line combing a forest for food like a human net and one of them finds a bunch of bananas. The discoverer instinctively and charitably shares the bananas out in the knowledge that the next time they go looking for food someone else may happen across some bananas and the charity will need to be reciprocated. Obtaining resources is just luck, and when obtained within a social survival strategy, then any lack of selfless sharing or charity poisons the society.

In our complex societies it's very easy to forget the 'net' which is connecting us all to one another existentially due to various walls and sectors being isolated.

Happy Buddha wrote:When we live from the self-centred mode we are living a natural life.

Maybe you intended to say life-centred here, rather than self-centred?
"Compassion – particularly for yourself – is of overwhelming importance." - Mark Williams, Mindfulness (2011), p117.
"...allow yourself to smile inwardly." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (2005), p436.
Weekly Blog: http://mindfuldiscipline.blogspot.co.uk

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Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:05 am  

I have edited the subforum so it is now called Online Mindfulness Courses.
We can keep tinkering with it as needed. :)
“Being mindful means that we take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.”
Mark Williams

http://adlibbed.blogspot.co.uk/p/mindfulness-me-enjoy-silence.html
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:31 am  

I didn't think you were pouring cold water at all Steve, just giving your opinions which is welcomed here. I'm not too sure either how we will eventually get this to work, but we will get it to work, I'm confident of that. With the standard of technology that is around these days, we maybe able to run virtual mindfulness courses in Google hangouts or Skype. Who knows? There is defintely mileage in this idea though. We will find our way by trying different things and seeing what works.

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