The overall tenor of mindfulness practice is gentle,
appreciative and nurturing.
Another way to think of it would be heartfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life
Category: Be fully present
Fully here
Just actualize all time as all being.
There is nothing extra
Dōgen, Uji
Blackbird singing
Some events, like hearing a bird singing early this morning, make it easy to be fully present. We are not remembering another bird, another moment.
I do not know which to prefer
The beauty of inflections
or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
photo m.betley
How it is right now
What does it mean to see each other exactly as we are? Past memories about ourselves and each other are not how we are right now. Memory is an incomplete and inaccurate recording of the past. Now is something entirely different. Quietly looking and listening now is not memory. It is an entirely different mode of being, It is a cleansing of perception.
Toni Packer, The Work of this Moment
Expecting things a certain way
In daily life your mind is filled with expectations that largely determine which events you pay attention to and how you interpret them. Most of the time you are unconscious of your expectations, yet they control much of what you do and pose an obstacle to how you live your intentions. As you become mindful of expectations, you start to see how they dominate your life choices and colour your perception. Expectations assume a certain result and are future-based. They hold your present sense of well-being hostage to a future that may or may not happen.
Philipp Moffitt in A Year of Living Mindfully
Sunday Quote: Quiet in heart
We pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye, clear.
What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
photo rspb
