how do you talk about mindfulness?

[sky]

Originally Posted by Maisy

I was wondering why you keep mentioning Jesus here lol. Posting he had a healthy ego in this Buddhist section. I just thought you forgot what section of the forums you were in. I did that once.

No I didn't forget at all but seeing as 'The Bible' had been brought up in a Buddhist Thread and Jesus is mentioned in the Bible....
Mentioning that I personally feel through reading His Teachings that His ego was exceptionally Healthy is very different from desparaging Buddhism especially on a Buddhist Thread.

[sky]

Originally Posted by Maisy

Wrong section mate. This is the Buddhism section. Easter is a Christian thing.

The 'Resurrection' of both The Buddha and Jesus although different showed the world one thing, that compassion is not only Universal but essential.That is something we all should/can celebrate in our own way.

The above is what I remember from chatting to a Roman Catholic Priest at my Buddhist Sangha....

For all that we discuss the ego it is almost amusing to me how apparent it is that our every point of contention seems to be a clash of egos. Difficult to see a way around this other than to simply state and accept that we must agree to disagree….better to honor the freedom of others than to recruit ??…………:)

[Joe Mc]

Originally Posted by Maisy

Wrong section mate. This is the Buddhism section. Easter is a Christian thing.

So this is not the Easter Eggo Section ? Did you know that Easter Eggs and Easter chocolate bunnies have their origins in Pagan rituals and Pagan times.
I googled that !

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[Redchic12]

Joe, the word mate is used over here like you use the word man

Eg. Hey man, how ya doin.

[Joe Mc]

Originally Posted by Redchic12

Joe, the word mate is used over here like you use the word man

Eg. Hey man, how ya doin.

No problem, I amended that post lol ...confusing times, didn't know Maisy is from your neck of the woods ?? !

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[Maisy]

Originally Posted by Joe Mc

So this is not the Easter Eggo Section ? Did you know that Easter Eggs and Easter chocolate bunnies have their origins in Pagan rituals and Pagan times.

Ah ha you got me there! I apologize! How would I know if you were posting about the "religious" Easter or the "pagan" one? Easter for a lot of people is just a nice day off work, take kids to an Easter egg hunt if you got any, maybe buy some usually shaped chocolate that magically shows up in stores at this holiday. A giant bunny in involved somehow. Xmas is Santa. No idea what in the heck Halloween is about. Free candy and witches are somehow linked.

[Maisy]

Originally Posted by Joe Mc

No problem, I amended that post lol ...confusing times, didn't know Maisy is from your neck of the woods ?? !

I googled it. Ah it's Australian. I was thinking it was a pirate thing or a sailor thing. Like in "First Mate." Another one that pops up online is calling people "Hun." I think that's Midwest USA. Oh wait I googled that too it says Hun, honey, darlin, etc are used by southern folks of all walks of life regardless of their gentlemanly stature.

[Gem]

The general misperception I notice about mindfulness is people are under the impression that it is practiced to make things change, but it's actually practiced to see how things are. 'To see it as it is'.

We don't worry about things changing because everything changes anyway, and the idea is to be willing toward change, which is to say, exert no will upon what 'already is'.

This means it is extraordinarily simple: just observe.

I have noticed that this isn't natural to people because they always have to add on a little something to do, and it's pervasive in that just about every teacher can't talk about mindfulness without adding an activity to it. They'll say count the breaths or time the breath, control the rate and depth or something, just so you still feel like you are the one who makes something happen, the instigator of change, the person with volition.

Mindfulness is what happens prior, it is what 'already is', so the practice, given people are in perpetual action/reaction, is to stop and simply know 'this is what it's like'.

[Maisy]

Originally Posted by Gem

simply know 'this is what it's like'.

Residing in that way to be, do you think one could just call it emptiness? You are still fully there of course but not there as somebody or something, just aware of whatever is moment to moment.