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mindfulness is almost an opposite of thinking.
by whynaut 5y ago
mindfulness 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.