Seeing what we look at. Hearing what we listen to. Knowing what we know. Can happen only in an environment of emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three). How noisily do we live? How quickly do we see, hear, understand, and think we know? We cannot be here, now without slowing down and recognizing where we are, what’s what, what is called for and where do we go from here, when, and how. We cannot live well without the experience of being alive in each moment of our living, and how often does that happen? Babies, infants, toddlers and young children do that without knowing that they are doing it. We can learn to do it by knowing that we are doing it, simply by being here, now, and being aware of being here, now. Jon-Kabat Zin’s mindfulness exercises are excellent ways of knowing where we are, when we are, how we are and for what purpose we are in the moment of our living (Watch his shortest videos first).
In doing this, we are becoming aware of being aware, of seeing what we are looking at, of seeing ourselves seeing, and we are “turning the light around “by becoming alive to the life we are living. And that changes, or, at least, strongly influences the alteration, of everything about our life.
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