The Tibetan word for meditation is “gom”. It essentially means “getting used to, familiarizing”. Meditation, then, is the act of familiarizing your mind with what you want it to do. That process fo familiarity is just taking qualities and abilities that the mind naturally has, focusing on them in a methodical way, and thus building your base. The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness. Unless we train it, the mind does the minimum necessary to fulfill a function. in that way it is like the body.…Without conditioning, even a sudden dash to keep our kids out of harm’s way – or to catch a plane or a bus – will tire us out.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Running with the mind of meditation.
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Ah, Great Post!
Synchronicity is a funny one – I have been thinking about familiarity these past few days….
It seems that familiarity is a good foundation for confidence…
Situations you are familiar with, you are confident in (perhaps not all the time, but often) or at least the chance to be confident is increased.
But many times we are unconscious/unaware whilst we are gaining familiarity. I thought that it would be powerful to be mindful and aware whilst building familiarity, thus building aware and mindful confidence.
I am playing with doing this all on the slackline…putting myself in an uncomfortable position where I have low confidence, deliberately over and over, then relaxing and becoming aware, until I notice the familiarity increasing and thus my confidence increasing towards that once uncomfortable position.
Translating this to real life is going to be an interesting project.
Thanks for the post!