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I have always doubted full Mindfulness. I meditate irregularly. Some of the best ideas in my life came to me when I was not thinking about it- while walking,
by rg111 5y ago
I have always doubted full Mindfulness.
I meditate irregularly.
Some of the best ideas in my life came to me when I was not thinking about it- while walking, cooking, or in shower.
If I had fully focused on those tasks only, those ideas might have had eluded me.
OTOH, always thinking about something is unhealthy.
I find a comfortable middle ground in times when it is required.
If Archimedes only focused on the warmth and the smooth texture of water on his skin, he wouldn't have gotten to the Law. (I know these stories are little dramatized.)
Only doubt I have is that is there some (perceptionally) magical benefit that you get when you reach there? Could be. Or it could be mythical.
- whynaut 5y agomindfulness is almost an opposite of thinking.
- joeberon 5y agoNo. Mindfulness is "thinking when thinking, walking when walking, shitting when shitting".
- RandomWorker 5y agoThat’s more like Zen Buddhism
- joeberon 5y agoNo, it is not, it's the Buddha's definition of mindfulness, that a monk knows exactly without confusion when he is walking, knows when he is sleeping, knows when he is eating, etc. It's easy to look it up in the suttas. Saying the canonical presentation of mindfulness is somehow "Zen Buddhism" is totally incorrect.
- Aditya_Garg 5y agoNo, mindfulness is more “watching while thinking, watching while walking, watching when shitting”
- joeberon 5y agoNo, that is a popular misunderstanding of it. Watching is watching, watching while walking is not being mindful, you are being mindless if you are doing that, since you are removed from the situation. Mindfulness is simply knowing that you are doing without the need to watch or reflect on the fact that you are doing.
- Lammy 5y agoNot aware* that your brain was thinking about it and just waiting for a path to form :)
- Koshkin 5y agoI have discovered many a bug in the code I’d written while mindlessly staring out of the window of a subway car on my way home.