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 Buddhist Mindfulness and Meditation
Take a break from the rush of daily life and breathe. Focus on the here and now and worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. These are the basics of mindfulness. Meditation is way of clearing the mind of thoughts and searching for a deeper understanding and a deeper form of consciousness. Buddhist mindfulness uses meditation to achieve a greater sense of awareness and a
deeper form of consciousness.
The basis of Buddhist mindfulness and meditation is to pay attention to every thought and feeling that passes through your mind. This is what the awareness is all about in mindfulness. Buddhist mindfulness is becoming aware of everything as you move through the day. For instance, while at work you walk past the water cooler five or six times. Now that you are beginning to practice Buddhist mindfulness, each time you walk past the water cooler you start to notice thinking patterns. Maybe walking past makes you smile because of a joke told there once. Or maybe walking past makes you angry, because everyone seems to stand around it while you are working. The point is that now you notice and become aware of those thoughts; this is Buddhist mindfulness.
Buddhist mindfulness also incorporates meditation, the technical word is Vipassana. This type of meditation forces you to observe yourself and your thought process while meditating. Through meditation we can take a deeper look at the reasons we act or react to situations the way we do. This type of Buddhist mindfulness can help us understand the basis or our bad habits and then take steps to correct and overcome them. The deepest state of this type of Buddhist mindfulness meditation is achieving a state of seeing things as they really are. It is more of a realization of the self and living in the present. We start to see ourselves as we really are and not some manifestation of how we want to be or how we used to be.
You don't have to be a Buddhist to adapt to the Buddhist mindfulness school of
thought. On the other hand, mindfulness and Buddhism go hand in hand, you can't be a Buddhist without mindfulness. There are three basic purposes in mindful meditation: knowing the mind, training the mind, and freeing the mind.
Knowing the mind is simply being aware of the thoughts that cross through the mind each day. Being aware of each thought does not mean you need to dwell on each one; it is simply acknowledging the thought and allowing it to move on.
Buddhist mindfulness incorporates many Buddhist teachings. Training the mind means taking responsibility for your thoughts and actions. It also teaches the mind about kindness and compassion. If there is conflict in the mind, it should be dealt with as peacefully as possible. The mind can be taught to turn thoughts from negative to positive, but first requires awareness and accountability for each thought.
The final purpose of mindful
meditation is to free the mind. Our minds are constantly filled with selfish desires, harsh judgments, and harmful images. Through mindful meditation we can learn to free the mind of these harmful thoughts and replace them with more peaceful ones.
Buddhist mindfulness has been around for centuries. It combines awareness with a clear mind to help flush out negative thinking patterns and replace them with positive ones.
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