Mindfulness

Right Mindfulness

Sati  (Pali). In Buddhism the word ‘Sati’ usually carries the meaning of awareness or skillful attentiveness.

#7 on the eightfold path

Let it flow

Right mindfulness is ability to see and feel life as it is with complete awareness.
For many of us our usual condition is a kind of waking dream involving trains of conditioned thoughts that may be pleasant, neutral or unpleasant.
These thoughts are interwoven with many underlying emotions and sensations that influence our decisions and guide us through life.

Once awareness is developed and we are able to separate ourselves from our thought patterns; the truth arises that thoughts are not really us and we start to dis-identify with them.
This is the beginning of freedom.

This is not to say that we don't need thoughts or that thoughts are bad.
Right mindfulness can reveal to us the world as it really is and not as we would like it to be. Which is not always easy.
Mindfulness can be like the rays of the sun breaking through clouds, shedding light onto the darkness.

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