Tuesday, December 28, 2010

mindfulness

I'm sure most of us spiritual people have heard about being mindful. For the most part, it just entails being mindful of your body, mind and being (spirit)... but what does that really mean?

For mindfulness of your body, it basically just entails, getting into your body, being mindful of movement, of what you're doing, of how efficient you can do your action, no matter how monotonous it may be. I like saying (in the case of breath mindfulness); that every breath is different.

For mindfulness of your mind, it's about seeing right view, or correcting bad thoughts with labeling that thought as "wrong view". It's about growing more mature in thought, more subtle and real in the nature of your thought. I think of being enlightened as being "super normal"; emphasis on the normal part.

As for spirit; you gotta follow the middle path, being balanced in the material and spiritual world. I'd say, all self inquiry on love, brings you closer to and more mindful of unconditional love and spirit (not a love anyway kind of love, but a love no matter what kind of love).

I've felt gods love before as a formless, but form including kind of love. When your love deepens, it gets away from the pushing things away\pitying kind of love, and becomes more entrenched in facing what's in this moment, here and now. It's like truly unconditional love (even for the moment; and unconditional moment).