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@ Zenpai
2025-02-06 18:31:30
Mindfulness often has the misconception that by practicing you can stop your mind from thinking and obtain an empty mind.
While one can definitely achieve moments of emptiness in thinking, this view that emptiness is the goal can be the very obstacle in your way leading to frustration with the practice.
If we adjust our perspective and see mindfulness as learning to accept the situations we find ourselves in and adjust to them rather than fighting them, we achieve a kind of grace under pressure.
The thoughts are part of the practice, just like cars on the road are part of driving, or the danger of a punch is always a threat to a boxer.
The difference between the novice and the seasoned is one has accepted and acclimated to the realities of the situation instead of fighting them, in this one finds freedom.