Buddhist principle of mindfulness
You get on the subway in the morning. Your thoughts revolve around the upcoming working day. Like all other passengers, you pull your cell phone out of your pocket and check your e-mails. The subway brakes, you fall over and break your wrist. A lack of attention is not good for your health! If you were to live according to the Buddhist principle of mindfulness, this would not have happened to you.
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Sitting when you are sitting. Run when you run. Eat when you eat. All of that is mindfulness. Conscious, active and awake, the experience of everything that is happening around you can improve your quality of life.
- Living life is tied to the moment; what monk Thích Nhất Hạnh describes as the Buddhist principle of mindfulness is the conscious, unconditional and courageous devotion to the moment. Mindfulness corresponds to full surrender to life itself.
- If something has passed, then it has passed. If something is still ahead, it is currently irrelevant. In the principle of mindfulness it is not relevant what one would like to do at the moment, what one might do tomorrow or what one still did yesterday. It only matters what you are doing. Whoever lives this principle lives with all his heart.
- Doing has neither a beginning nor an end - this is how many representatives of the mindfulness doctrine express themselves, because doing is always the present. Accordingly, those who are actively in the present are more productive. He is also more attentive and receptive.
- Those who live mindfulness are able to make conscious decisions that are appropriate to the moment. Instead of reactions, he takes action and thus a self-determined life without external influences, which fascinates him anew with every second of his life.
- Whether it's the painful spring cleaning or studying for an upcoming exam: Everything is fun and fulfilling if you do it with all your heart. Once you focus on your present actions you really experience them, and as long as you really experience them and surrender to them, any activity is passionate.
- This in turn is closely linked to the Buddhist principle of humility, because satisfaction is unconditionally guaranteed with mindfulness.
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Sitting when you are sitting. Run when you run. Eat when you eat. Why do very few people in the western world do it when it is actually so easy and could make you so happy?
Mindfulness in the Western World
So much to do! In the western world and consumer society there is hardly a quiet minute, because if you take a rest, you rust. The principle of mindfulness is made more difficult for western people, but it is still not an impossible utopia for life.
- Mindful living requires focus. Concentration, on the other hand, requires a calm mind, and it can just as easily be there at work. It is not the "busy work" and the "out there" that make mindfulness difficult for Western people, but rather the "in there" and the constant thought of job, the consumer offer and the upcoming Errands.
- Overcoming these thoughts is difficult for Western society for several reasons: Firstly According to studies, there is constant time pressure, pressure to make decisions and in the consumer society Life pressure. On the other hand, "successful" life and work in Western society require uninterrupted accessibility.
- The age of technology has played its part in this: Cell phones and the Internet are part of everyday life and work. Unfortunately the availability for others dissipates the availability for oneself, because concentrated on the matter too its not working if you are constantly staring at a cell phone screen, checking your e-mails or making calls receives.
- Really experiencing what you are doing requires - as already mentioned above - letting go. Not only thoughts about the future, the past or your own wishes have to be let go. You also have to let go of time pressure, pressure to perform and distraction, which are social norms for a Western life.
- Efforts to be more mindful can begin on a small scale: On a train journey, you take the train instead of using your mobile phone to connect to the Internet. Work is carried out during work instead of having a coffee at the same time. During the coffee break, on the other hand, coffee is drunk and the warm feeling is felt on the tongue instead of thinking about work. All of this corresponds to mindfulness, because all of this enables attentive experience of the present moment with all its joys and sorrows.
Ordinary is something unusual in this world, and whoever tries out the principle of mindfulness and attention will experience it firsthand early enough. That fascinates, moves and makes you happy.
