[MD] The first cut.

[MarshaV]

Mark,

Mindfulness counteracts mindlessness...  imho.  


Marsha 


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On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:34 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/2/12, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Mark,
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:22 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Mark:
>>> I am not asking for somebody else's opinion, I am asking for yours.
>>> Please explain in your own words what you mean by "direct experience"
>>> so that I can understand where you are coming from.
>> 
>> Marsha:
>> One way to address 'direct experience' is that of staying present to the
>> experience being performed rather than losing your attention to a wandering
>> mind, but I've heard it expressed many different ways.  The point is, it's
>> an experience, so when it happens you know it.
> 
> Mark:
> Thanks!  Another way to address this is to consider your wandering
> mind to be just that.  Your thoughts are something that happen to you,
> you are not your thoughts just like you are not your heart beat.  Your
> Attention is also a wandering mind, you cannot distinguish it from
> such.  Just see it for what it is, and mindfulness is accomplished.
> If one does not realize this, one becomes trapped in a robotic brain
> and remains asleep under that biological spell.
> 
> An experience is  created in the present.  We create it.  Direct
> experience comes from the inside as well as the outside.  When we
> create an experience, we must take responsibility.  It does not
> "happen" separate from us as something we are subjected to.  Our
> knowing creates it, it is not some passive observer.  We are not a
> world of determined victims.  Responsibility comes with Self.  A
> Buddhist will try to relieve all sufferring, not because he is the
> product of endless patterns, but because HE cares.  Caring is not a
> deconstructionist paradigm.
>> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
>>