To eat the peach or make do with the picture of a lovely peach. It is a daily choice we face.
On Jan 8, 2011 11:18 PM, "Maria Lopez" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello again Dave. I haven´t read any comment from you or anyone else about video suggestion "Thich Nhat Hanh, with the tittle "simple mindfulness" to be found in the google videos department. However, I have been reading some of the responses talking involving mindfulness subject. Some of those responses are intellectual assumptions about what is mindfulness about and others are a sharing of personal experience from the one or ones who posted it. As a person whose teaching of mindulness transmited directly by zen ven. Master Thich Nhat Hanh, it feels as my moral responsibility to encourage you to watch and listen with attention the dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh in the way I previously advice you to do so or you run the risk of getting mentally entangled with different information about mindfulness but not having in you the real practise for it, the tool that will lead you to open the door of mindfulness. I wish not to put more ideas in your head or anyone else about this subject and just to give an starting clue key about it: "Mindfulness is to be aware of all what is going on within and around oneself". I believe that this sentence and the video adviced to be watched can help you and all not to get lost in mental entertainment about mindfulness. It´s very important that you understand that no matter how appealing or pleasant to the intellectual mind can be some posting, the only way to truly understand what is mindfulness about is by putting straight away into practise. It´s in the fruits as a result of that practise that mindfulness can be understood beyond any intellectual as it´s, as everything else in zen, a direct experience. Much, much short cut to eat the peach rather than to have the poetry and much more often the speculation by the ones who read a lot about what look like the taste of the peach but never tried, tasted or even see a peach in their life. Best Mayka --- On Fri, 31/12/10, Dave P <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Dave P <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Not understanding mindfulness > To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 31 December, 2010, 4:12 > > "Cure" is probably not the right word. I know it's not really a cure, and I see it as an add-on... > > You asked several things below and I've embedded my responses in your post. > > > > --- In [email protected], "Dave P" <wookielifeday@> wrote: > > > > > > I haven't b...
