Download - Mindfulness in daily life
Path of Mindfulness
in Daily life
LIVING MEDITATION
REFLECTIONS ON MEDITATION
CREATIVE LIVING
Living Meditation
Based on our inherent quality of
intelligence, we can attain enlightenment
while living household life and
contemplating impermanence within our
self.
Meditation means cultivating the mind to
achieve insight wisdom and ultimately-
liberation.
What is ‘cultivating the mind’?
To understand the mind you have to watch
and pay attention with an uncluttered and
silent mind.
Try to experience watching yourself in
silence. That silence is the silence of the
mind free from discriminations, free from
likes and dislikes, free from clinging.
To meditate, no need to sit in
padmasana!
Thoughts and emotions by themselves are just momentary and possess no life of their own. By clinging to them you prolong their stay.
Only when your mind is free from clinging and rejecting, you can see anger as anger, desire as desire. Understand and deal with anger, desire and ignorance as they occur. Train your mind to watch itself even while you are busy with your normal life.
Meditation =
Mindfulness + Equanimity
If you can be mindful without judgement
and without likes and dislikes then you are
practicing with an inner silence and
equanimity.
Staying with the moment and viewing
everything without likes and dislikes.
Prajna:
Penetrating insight wisdom
To look into yourself directly is to come
back to your own source and to reach an
inner equilibrium and silence. It is only
from this inner equilibrium that you can
view the outer chaos objectively as a
circumstantial situation. See the cause
behind the chaos , resolve it in the best
way for the circumstances.
Silent Mind
A truly silent mind is alert and sensitive to
its surroundings. This is because it is
devoid of judging, clinging or rejecting.
The silent mind is free from hatred, anger,
jealousy, confusion and conflict.
By their nature, thoughts are transient and
go if the ‘I’ interferes and says ”Let them
Go”
The Laws of Love and the Laws
of Life:
When we love unconditionally, we help others to feel secure and safe, validated and affirmed in their essential worth, identity and integrity.
As human beings we are responsible for our lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions and not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to our values.
Six major deposits that build the
emotional Bank Account:
1) Understanding the individual; 2)
Attending to the little things; 3)
Keeping commitments: 4) Clarifying
expectations; 5) Showing personal
integrity; 6) Apologizing sincerely when
you make a withdrawal.
Personal Management:
Put first things first
R U an effective manager of UR self ?
Follow UR own deep values, their source.
Act to actualize UR proactive first creation.
Organize & execute around priorities
FIRST: Important -Urgent, then
[+Important-not-urgent]
Focus on relationships & results
Know when U got to say a firm ‘NO’