It's Rome, the house colors are sugary and sweet and Clive Owen is shirtless.
One more engaging scenario with which to divert and entertain myself during this week of political abstinence. Yes, I've extended it to a week, until Saturday when the DNC Rules Committee shall meet to determine the fate of...
No, no more, I promised.
Just an endless swath of enchanting, and steadfastly mindless, visuals.
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The Buddha taught about the mindfulness of breathing, in sanskrit anapanasati, but my spelling's almost certainly incorrect.
This to anchor practice in the here and now (the breath can never be anywhere else) and also, in the body. In the below.
The goal is to see without the hassle of thoughts getting in the way. To see, as if for the very first time. To still the mind.
You are a mind and a body, and so if your consciousness is just in the mind, in the particular thoughts of the moment, you cannot really be whole. Being mindful of breathing in the body is the gateway to being mindful of the whole body, which is without boundaries to the universe. Mindfulness of your body and the wider universe as it unfolds in front of your eyes, ears, mouth, nose - and feelings from your head to your toes.
Our thinking processes are known in Pali as papansha (again, spelling out) which is used to describe how the human mind builds stories upon story within and upon itself, and takes us away from the real and into an endlessly self referential and deluded world of our own making. A mindless confectionary of sorts.
In a world where everything is on fire, worldly forms - even thoughts - can be a trap. The mind is, in this sense our own personal idol worshipping, golden calf factory.
So, dispassion (in balance with compassion) is the key to freedom from desire, to train the mind only to think when its useful to think, and the rest of the time just to watch.
To watch the miracle unfolding, including thoughts (but not attach to it/them - ie not too take them seriously) is a fruit of this practice
Again, the Budda said: "Indra became king of the God's just by watching."
In other words, we wouldn't need CCTV if were all simply to realise 'God is watching'
More on how to practice anapanasati, also known as Vipassana or Zazen - basically Insight Meditation later. Promise.
And sorry for the Fire Brigade delay..!
Mark
Perfect and timely...she breathes.
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