Mindful pleasures..... As the words turn.

[David Morris]

I think "Mindfullness" in meditation terms mean "focusing attention."  It
is an action more than a state. There are many ways to focus attention,
many sense-based locales for focus.  The central idea is sustained focus on
a sensation or question.

Chi schools teach how to sense and manipulate Chi, Life Force.  More
passive schools don't aim to manipulate that Chi, but to give it free
reign.  I prefer the later.  Both are attention-based meditation
techniques.  Other Zen schools advise to ignore the energy.  Zen is  too
strict for me.

David Morris

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:59 AM Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That's where it gets weird. Mindfulness is part of the Noble Eightfold
> Path—and it means to keep in mind all the other numbered Buddhist stuff...
> all of which doesn't jive with getting ahead in a rat race.
>
> On Aug 28, 2017, at 11:36 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That was kinda my take, but I didn't know how to say it, "secularizing
> mindfulness...". Nice.
> You might say mindfulness is a product or result of meditation?
>
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> On Aug 28, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> The Buddhist take on it is 'yeah, it really is selfish, but better than
> going around making a mess of things'.
>
> Maybe secularizing mindfulness is... I don't know... stupid? Besides it's
> meditation that sows the benefits—mindfulness goes on top of that.
>
> On Aug 27, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/mindfulness-would-be-good-for-you-if-it-werent-all-just-hype/2017/08/24/b97d0220-76e2-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.a655dfed2455
>
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