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Watching the Wheels

6/11/2024

 
Every mindfulness practitioner learns, usually pretty quickly, just how saturated is their mind in random and arbitrary thoughts and imaginings. It’s as if our minds have a mind of their own. To observe this in action, moment to moment, with interest, without grasping, is one of the key tasks of meditation. Why might this be time well spent?

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Ain’t That Enough

8/10/2024

 
Of the many reliable guides for living a mindful life, Ajahn Chah is hard to beat. He was a Thai Forest monk who was famous not only for his simple and direct approach but his training of several senior western meditation teachers. His tuition, alongside that of Thich Nhat Hanh’s, quietly exerts a grandfatherly influence on some of the more dynamic expressions of today’s secular mindfulness movement. A particular emphasis of Ajahn Chah’s teaching was how to be on more realistic and, therefore, better terms with life. 

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Thinking Inside the Box

4/9/2024

 
Now that ‘mindfulness’ is firmly established in our cultural lexicon, a pattern has become clear in how the broadcast media engages with this most mutable of concepts. A recent and worthy example is Mindfulness Manual, a three-part documentary streaming on Netflix and the latest televisual treatment of mindfulness following the inane Headspace Guide to Meditation and the awful Mindful Escapes. The bar may be low and Mindfulness Manual might even have elevated it slightly, but this programme rarely deviates from the same tired templates the media is keen to exploit. If you are considering watching it, here is a brief dissection that might give you pause for thought.

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Reading the Future

2/6/2024

 
The benefits of a healthy mindfulness practice are numerous and well-attested, but not easy to put into words. Practitioners, when asked, tend to use indefinite descriptors like feeling more alert and aware, or being more attuned and open-hearted. This is because gains are subtle – so much so that that we aren’t necessarily conscious of them. This is true for one of the more profound benefits: the ability to decide a wise course of action by predicting its effect.

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Mindfulness of the Breathless

7/2/2024

 
Anxiety is a common reason for people to be drawn to mindfulness practice. Anxiety has many forms and manifestations, but delving deeper into the subjective experience of it is an obvious place to begin. Mindfulness meets anxiety in an intimate encounter on two fronts: it seeks to know the direct experience of anxiety and all the inner reactions to it. Mindfulness opens up the gap between the raw physicality of anxiety and the mental patterning, conditioned through past events, it precipitates. Attuning to anxiety in this way means a new relationship with it becomes possible.

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