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Mindful Awareness in Everyday Life
Talk by Epp on 2008-02-28
The talk centers on mindfulness, emphasizing the practice of awareness in both physical and mental experiences. It guides attendees through a meditation, instructing them to relax and observe their thoughts and surroundings without attachment. The speaker reflects on the importance of pausing to evaluate experiences, promoting an awareness that influences behavior and emotional states. Participants are encouraged to discuss how this practice integrates into their daily routines.
- Zen Meditation Techniques: The talk provides detailed instructions on easing into meditation postures and focusing on the breath, illustrating key physical practices foundational in Zen meditation.
- Mindfulness Practice: References are made to methodologies aimed at fostering mindfulness, where acknowledging and releasing thoughts helps maintain focus and equanimity.
- Building Awareness: The process of observing experiences is associated with recognizing the formation of moods and behaviors, a central teaching in mindfulness practice.
- Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life: The talk discusses integrating mindfulness through routine actions like pausing at various times to enhance the awareness practice in everyday contexts.
AI Suggested Title: Mindful Awareness in Everyday Life
Your knees touching the ground. Keep your head bones slightly bent forward Head up to your belly
[02:19]
following the movement of your breathing. You're spying all the way stretched up to the crown of your head. Shoulders relaxed.
[03:44]
Chest open. Just follow the moving. Keep breathing. Lifting. Falling of the abdominal walls.
[04:54]
Relax your face, your eyes cast outward. her hands in the cosmic muda, Just come back, keep breathing.
[06:44]
Be aware of your thoughts. Let it pass by. Notice the sound, the quietness, or the loudness, or the turmoil of it. And let it go by. I think you already know, Christina had to go back home to Europe because her mother was his, close to dying.
[09:35]
And tonight, Greg is sick. He has the flu. So it's just us. You know, these theories of mindfulness, awareness, homeworks that we've been offering you. You know, the idea is to develop the skill to return to experience what's happening, whether it's happening physically, emotionally, or mentally, and then watch how that builds up and becomes behavior, becomes mood, becomes a sense of self. becomes a way of relating the weather, you know? And if we can establish that from a place of contact, then quite literally that awareness carries out in all those formations becomes seen for that effect.
[10:46]
They're seen as formations. And what's more usual for us is we're hooked by them, and they're real. And then you act and feel according to that reality. And then the last time we went back, the suggestion was, you know, can you add in a pause? And if it's pleasant, can you open up to pleasantness? Can you appreciate it? If it's unpleasant, can you hold it with compassion? In our small groups of being, we just like each of you to talk, how is this practice going for you? Is it most useful as a reflection at the end of the day? Have you find that it's become quite acceptable as a practice at various points in the day?
[11:50]
Do you pause in a specific way? five past the hour, when you eat your lunch, when you pass through the doorway entering your residence. So wherever and however you are with the process, just to talk about that. And since there's only the three of us What we'll do is we'll just break up into three groups. So we won't try to go to our usual group. So we'll just count up. Go one, two, three, one, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three, one.
[12:52]
One. Two. One, two, three. [...] One, two. Three. One. Everyone have a number? Okay. What would you like to go? That's all? That's just fun. So why don't ones go with Anna to be our ones?
[13:57]
And two can go with me to the Doka-Than room and just follow me up the stairs if you don't know what that means. And then three. And then we'll try to come together. And then we're going upstairs with a good ringtone.
[14:23]
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