in waterstones I saw a thing that really made me stand back and worry for the future of spirituality ... there was loads of books entitled things like mindfulness for bicycling or mindfulness for gardening ... and basically a mindfulness guide to everything in many small but apparently mindful books ... and my one thought was !!!! ... followed by mindfulness is acquired by conscious meditation by actually working the mind into a state of inner and outward watchfulness of both self and world this is a watchfulness that contains the thoughts thinking about the world and the action whilst also focusing upon the thoughts to bring the process of thinking as an action into absolute conscious realm of self beyond ego and external self beyond inner self or mind at large where knowing is being and beyond that even to non-knowing and non-being where the universe is conscious within ones self ... and whilst I applaud the whole concept of books I question the validity of a book that explains to people how to be mindful within each limited daily action because the mindfulness in those daily actions hasnt been learned the hard way but instead gained through byte sized ideas expressed by others which whilst giving shape to an idea and planting a seed in the mind doesnt teach the mind how to step beyond its own boundaries and become mindful of itself and its own laziness ... grumpy old man winge over
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:07:22 +0000
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