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Marsha,
Unless you do it in a mindless fashion, like trying not to think.
Mark

On 2/2/12, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Mark,
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> Mindfulness counteracts mindlessness...  imho.
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> Marsha
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:34 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 2/2/12, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:22 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>
>>>
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