{"id":18337,"date":"2024-01-12T06:35:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/?p=18337"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:36:10","slug":"words-of-wisdom-for-january-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/words-of-wisdom-for-january-12-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom for January 12, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perhaps the best way to understand what mindfulness is, from a classical Buddhist perspective, is to recognize some of the things it is not.<\/p>\n
Mindfulness does not just mean being aware or being conscious, because one is always conscious when not comatose or dead. Consciousness is the fundamental quality of mind, understood as an event that occurs rather than a thing that exists. As such, it is always present when any kind of experience takes place. If mindfulness meant to be aware, then we would always be mindful, automatically, in all circumstances.<\/p>\n
– Andrew Olendzki, Lion’s Roar<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n