ED: Some of the links I saw were the ones you sent. I'm not good searching things in the internet as I don't know to shorten the search. But you seem to be skillful in that. Going back to the subject of mindfulness, you may think that I'm getting funny but I can guarantee to you that this is something that you won't understand under just definition and no matter how hard you try. In fact when TNH gives away this teaching there is not only his dharma talk but this is put into practice straight away by all participants. There is not another way of understanding mindfulness but as experiencing it. And all the woo-woo going on about it shows how true is what I'm telling you. A very short way of definition will be: Mindfulness is to be aware of everything that is going on within and around. This may sound to you of such a simplicity that your intellectual mind refuses it. But believe me that most of times the greatest things in this life are simplicity based. Take for instance when Newton discovered the Gravity Law. He did that when he stopped and have a rest under the apple tree. And as his body and mind were relax and all his senses very awake he could observe the apple tree falling down from the tree and with it a scientific insight came to him! Mayka
--- On Sat, 5/3/11, ED <[email protected]> wrote: From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: What is the equivalent of 'pure awareness' in Zen? To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 5 March, 2011, 17:39 Google[define:xxxxxx] is not a tool to be used mindlessly! One only uses the leads, if any, that make sense and feel good to you. If most leads are woo-woo, that's good because it narrows down the choices for further study. --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > Mike: I've seen some of the links and definitions about mindfulness, and most of them are woo-woo.
