the latest research in mindfulness is showing
that if it's possible to actually
practice paying attention and systematic ways
that changed the way the brain is wired
changes the way the brain functions, changes
structure, very structure of the brain, in ways that enhance well-being
and clarity and multiple intelligences
so this is a very, very exciting time
where science in meditation coming together
because with discovering that the human organism
is really capable profound the technical word is called
plasticity, what the brain is an organ that changes in relationship to experience
and actually the chromosomes are changing always in relationship to
experience, and so
meditation even seems to be able to drive changes in which
genes in our chromosomes are being upregulated, in which genes being
down-regulated, which means we have a lot more freedom
to transform our organism, and our life experience and
and attain some degree profound
well-being and satisfaction than what we ever thought, that
scientifically amazing and
it's also seems to be the case
mindfulness is a way to live your life if it really mattered
and that involves being in the present moment
with open heart presence and kindness
with yourself, well, all of us are very busy
so how do we bring mindfulness into our life
the way to do it, is anyway we can feel right to us
so there's no one right way to do this but
a certain ways in which we cultivate awareness
can be very valuable, and a one thing that we might
bring our awareness to is the body, and just the sense of
remembering to feel us
our lives unfolding in the body as opposed to
only in our head, so that can be done in many different ways
in a sense of the body as a whole
walking, sitting, eating, moving
or just being in touch with the breath, one's own breath, and the feeling of the
breath, coming in
into the body, the feeling of the breath, leaving the body
but it's important to remember, it's not about the
breathing, it's not some breathing exercise or something special
you supposed to be doing
it's recognizing that is very special, that you're breathing at all
if you're not breathing, you're dead, so it could be
where breathing and how special this is
and feel the energy of it, as if, in this moment, this is my life
and it's not waiting for the weekend to have my life
waiting, when I finish something project, but every moment is my life, then
even in very stressful situations, you can move
into the actuality the situation, and find ways to
move with it, and regulate your own
reactivity to it, so that in some very, very deep way
you are not running away, you are not pushing through anything
but allowing things to and for
all that they do, that's the hardest creativity and
that way we get the most work done with the least destruction
and the least effort, it's an art form and it takes a while to learn
it's not something where
you just hear me say this on the web, and the next thing I know you'll be mindful
that for the rest my life, its
one of the most difficult things in the world, if not the most difficult thing
in the world for us human beings to do, to be present in our own lives
and to be kind unless judgmental on ourselves
that's why it's worth doing, with practicing
but it's not doing really, and all said and done
it's a way of being, and actually way of being
awake and yourself, in the present moment which
is the only moment where ever actually live in
tends to get obliterated
really squeeze to the point where we not in the present moment
always in the past, always in the future
and that's a prescription for unhappiness
happiness is in some other time, when, you know, at pot of gold at the end of
the rainbow, it's right now
in the midst of whatever's happening
and this is an art form, so it does take some time
it does involve some discipline
but I would throw out, well, what else is there to do
because if you're missing your entire life, whatever moment you decide, it's
time to reconnect with your life, that moment
guess when that will be, will be now, again, you look at your watch, oh my god
it's now again, so we only have moments in the now
why not, why not make the most use them
what is the most important thing that I've learned over the years about
mindfulness
I don't know, that it's a mystery
that it's a gift, that
we are geniuses, we're
miraculous beings, and that we ignore most about beauty
and drive us those crazy over all these things, that are really not important
so we've driven by the urgent, miss the important
and then wind up a lot of the time being happen
and then look elsewhere for the solution, this is a prescription for
disaster, and when I see people coming to mindfulness
our medical patients for instance, by the hundreds, by
thousands, by the tens of thousands, and turning their lives around, and having
many of them medical symptoms
all the way, and coming to live their lives more fully
its unbelievably gratifying work, so this work is moving into medicine, is working
moving into psychology, is moving into psychiatry, is moving into education
into the law and into government, and
that itself is, I think, very good sign for Humanity
I'll say one last thing, I guess, which is that
we call our species, Homo sapiens, sapiens
in latin, the species that knows, knows that
knows, the species that is aware, and aware that is aware
well, so far, I don't think we've really lived up to that name as a species
now with ecological a
through crisis that we are in
and with all the other crises that the human mind is created for
itself, and for the planet, maybe it is time
for us to wake up, to what that name is actually pointing to
and fully embody ourselves in that way
as species that understands our capacity for awareness
and then balances thought-out in a way that has profound
and ultimately when all is said and done
I call that love
Verbatim :Onishi Keisuke 英文聽打：大西啟介