Tag: Present moment

Where we place our energies

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The quality in our life is related to where we place our attention. We go of all the things that are cluttering our minds, and free up space and time  to live each moment and each encounter with others more fully. This is true for each moment, but also sets the tone for the values which we choose, the direction we are going.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:21

What is important is not what someone is

but what they are waiting for.

Not the events of life, but its possibilities.

Dorothee Solle

New to Mindfulness Practice 11: Kindness, not judging

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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way

— on purpose, in the present moment,

and without judgment.

Jon Kabat Zinn

New to Mindfulness Practice 10: Just watch

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If you need something to do in meditation , then watch the breathing. This is a very simple process. When you are breathing out, know that you are breathing out. When you breath in, know that you are breathing in, without supplying any kind of extra commentary or internalized mental gossip, but just identifying with the breath.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Noticing, right now, this morning

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Normally,  fantasies are spinning out , one after another, usually about being someplace else or being different from what we are right now. What about a moment of stopping  and checking whether this is going on right now?  Simply waking up this moment to what is taking place right now, opening up to……nothing special. Just wind blowing, windows rattling, birds calling, breath flowing in and out, bright sunlight flowing through the shades making patterns on the floor. When that happens it is clear that no wishing has brought it about! Being here and now in unadorned simplicity is our true state – whole and inseparable from anything else.

Toni Parker, The Silent Question

New to Mindfulness Practice 8 : Passing through the mind

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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky.

Conscious breathing is my anchor

Thich Nhat Hahn

New to Mindfulness Practice 7: Drop the commentary

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When we practice meditation, we express confidence in the simple yet powerful gesture of opening to whatever arises during our meditation session.  We discover that the practice requires that we sit still on the cushion, letting go of our internal dialogue, opening to our world — very simply, very directly.

When we examine this experience of opening, we find that we are expressing a part of ourselves that we may tend to overlook: we are expressing our ability to trust ourselves completely. In order to open — in meditation and in life in general — we must let go of our familiar thoughts and emotions, we must step out from behind the safe curtain of our inner rehearsals and onto the stage of reality, even if it’s for just a brief moment. When we open on the cushion, we renounce our attachment to our emotional security blanket, over and over again. We drop our pretense and our story lines and stand naked in the midst of uncertainty — the very essence of confidence itself.

Michael Carroll,  Bringing Spiritual Confidence to the Workplace