Mindfulness and Mindlessness

When we talk about mindfulness practices, we are usually referring to bringing awareness to our present moment, present action, present emotion, and present thought.

That is to leave the past in the past, and leaving the future to when it is in the present.

Dropping the attachments of the past and the future, the sorrows, the worries, the hopes, the promises, and all the rest of it.

Being present is being completely empty yet completely full. Empty of the mind, full of awareness and love.

There is a proverb that says ‘the mind is a good servant but a terrible master’

The mind holds a great capacity for thinking and creating. However, there is a level of thinking that is simply a veil. A veil that keeps us away from being present and living the only moment, every moment to its fullest. We miss knowing who we are, the liveliness of the moment, the liveliness of living.

Mindfulness is really mindlessness. It is when you empty the mind from its psychological burden, from its memories and attachments to the past, from its running towards the future, from this movement that is resisting being here and now. Only when you are here and now, there is a choice, there is freedom. The moment of unity, deep peace, and deep knowing.

Remember

Be

Here

Now