Greetings Ron,
I hope all is well.
By 'mindful-awareness' I mean a mind aware of NOW without the chatter of an
internal dialogue pulling one in multiple other distracting hypothetical
directions (past or future), simply being present.
Here's one comment Steve Hagen writes on the subject of mindful-awareness:
“ years ago...
“When the Buddha was asked to sum up his teaching in a single word, he said,
“awareness.” ...
“Not awareness of something in particular, but awareness itself --- being
awake, alert, in touch with what is actually happening.
(Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, p.3)
There's plenty available on the topic. Here's another explanation:
http://buddhism.about.com/od/theeightfoldpath/a/right-mindfulness.htm
Marsha
On Jul 20, 2013, at 12:53 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> [Marsha]
> It might be difficult for those who have not practiced mindful-awareness to
> imagine functioning without any accompanying linguistic narration
>
> [Arlo]
> To the contrary, I wish some people would go live their lives without any
> accompanying linguistic narration.
>
> Ron:
> You said it,
>
> It is what I have had to practice lately, by the simple virtue of just being
> overwhelmed. I have had to make decisions on the fly
> I have had to push through physical limitations all in a drive for
> "betterness". I've taken the time to respond mostly by wanting
> to say that I have been finding your posts very meaningful and also because
> Marsha's use of the term mindful-awareness has
> caught my attention.
> I take her meaning of the term to imply a "carefulness" since both mindful
> and aware equate to the same thing which would
> lead me to conclude that a "mindful" awareness is a "careful" awareness and a
> careful awareness is an awarness aimed at
> betterness.
> This bringing me back to my own aim at betterness, my careful awareness, my
> push through physical limitations and my
> cessastion of any accompanying linguistic narration. The "just do it." part
> of the drive mostly achieved by an intellectual ideal
> I have cultured, a "care" above all others that I must continually redefine
> and clarify in order for it to hold the meaning required
> for the drive to be executed and sustained.
>
> It just makes me aware how important that intellectual ideal is, how its
> formed and it's overarching aim.
>
> For instance I was just made aware that in order to succeed at my aim of a
> better life for my family I must also take
> my own well-being into account. I had coped with the typical suffering and
> reward type cycle, now I am faced with
> re-thinking my reward structure and how I conceive of what "reward" really
> means to me in my aim. Forcing me
> to make the quality distinction between counter-productive rewards and
> productive ones.
>
> But it was when I could establish what I cared most about and why that the
> form of the good became clearer to me
> in that it influenced my perception of the immediate now and my participation
> in it.
>
> To me, this is practicing mindful awareness but somehow I get the feeling
> thats not what she meant.
>
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