the cultivation of mindfulness of moment to moment
non-judgemental awareness
is really it sounds very simple but it's actually
just about the hardest work in the world
for human beings because we get so
caught up in our condition states of mind
when we
begin to cultivate awareness
its really important to bring
certain attitudinal approach to it
so that we're not trying to force anything to happen or sit in a kind of
rigid posture
we retain some special state that will, you know that we sort of
think, that's what it is, I'll be enlightened or I'll just be permanently
wise or I'll be this. I'll be that
the problem isn't actually with the Enlightenment with the permanently wise
or anything like that, the problem is with the personal pronouns
I mean mind, they are very very problematic
because who we think we are and who we actually are
are very different and there is a huge separation
who we think we are as very very small compared to who we actually are
and so when we are cultivating mindfulness
in MBSR or with people
we encourage a certain kind of a attitude that's brought to
the formal and informal practices that you can keep in mind through
your daily life as well, and these attitudes
there are seven of them that I put
in Full Catastrophe Living when I was writing it
because it really felt like if you bring
if you start to cultivate acceptance if you start to cultivate non striving
if you start to cultivate letting go or letting be
you start to cultivate trust and patient, these qualities
can be cultivated in everyday life with your children
with your parents, with your
partner or spouse with your colleagues at work
and so it's a way of reinforcing in deepening
the actual formal and informal meditation practices
Verbatim :Onishi Keisuke 英文聽打：大西啟介 中譯：牧行者