Happy Mindfulness Day!
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What is Mindfulness Day?
Mindfulness Day (September 12) is a global celebration started by Wisdom in 2011, dedicated to honoring the practice of mindfulness—a powerful tool for cultivating awareness, reducing stress, and more deeply understanding ourselves and the nature of reality.
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H. H. the Dalai Lama on the Power of Mindfulness
All conditioned things are subject to change; nothing remains a second moment after it arises. With deep mindfulness it is possible to see with wisdom this rapid change occurring. When one does, it almost seems as if nothing is there because whatever arises is gone in the next moment.
—The Dalai Lama, Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions
Where Mindfulness Ultimately Leads
In the beginning mindfulness takes away worries and fears about past and future and keeps us anchored in the present. In the end it points to right view of the self.
—Ayya Khema, Be An Island
7 Moments to Try Mindfulness
Taking a mindful breath when you engage in particular activities during the day helps you view the practice not as “adding on” to your tasks, but rather as “adding in” to already established routines. For instance, you might take a mindful breath with the following activities:
- Before answering the phone.
- While waiting for your computer to boot.
- While walking to the bathroom/to get coffee.
- Before and after meetings.
- Before responding to challenging emails, verbal statements, etc.
- Before drinking or eating.
- When you wake up in the morning or before going to sleep at night.
—Deborah Schoeberlein David, Living Mindfully at Home, at Work, and in the World
How Mindfulness Eases Suffering
Training in mindfulness meditation and using the insights it provides to perceive the impermanence of people and objects protects us from experiencing the desire to hang on to them. Gradually, we come to see that suffering is a mental state. It arises in us, not in the objects we perceive. For this reason, the Buddha has said, desire and craving—specifically desire and craving for impermanent, unsatisfactory, and selfless things—is the cause of suffering.
—Bhante Gunaratana, Meditation on Perception
The Bliss of Mindfulness
In empty valleys and ownerless rocky mountains,
a conduct that is free of pretense is so spacious!
The happiness that never loses mindfulness is so sublime!
—Lama Shang Tsöndrü Drakpa (1122–93), in The Mind of Mahamudra (Translated by Peter Alan Roberts)
The Power of Abandoning Past and Future
When you have abandoned all past and all future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here. You are mindful. This is the first stage of meditation, just this mindfulness sustained only in the present. Practicing even this stage, you have done a great deal. You have let go of the first burden that stops deep meditation. So it is important to put forth a lot of effort to make this first stage strong, firm, and well established.
—Ajahn Brahm, Kindfulness