Kristin Geeslin, M.S. "Mindful Seer"

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From A Joseph Campbell Companion

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Viewing our experience in this world as a dream, Siddhartha found that our habit of fixating on the mere appearance of our dreamlike relative world, thinking that it is truly existing, throws us into an endless cycle of pain and anxiety.

We are in a deep sleep, hibernating like a silkworm in a cocoon. We have woven a reality based on our projections, imagination, hopes, fears, and delusions.

Our cocoons have become very solid and sophisticated. Our imaginings are so real to us that we are trapped in the cocoon. But we can free ourselves simply by realizing that this is all our imagination.

~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in his book, What Makes You Not A Buddhist: https://amzn.to/4vgiUEh

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The Pali word sati, which is usually translated as mindfulness, has the original meaning of “to remember”. So the problem is that we forget. What do we forget? We forget where we are and what we are doing. We forget what is happening in this moment because we are so carried away with all our thoughts about what happened yesterday or what is going to happen tomorrow; all our daydreams, our judgements, our memories or just the endless mental pressure which is going on the whole time: the outer and inner commentary. We forget where we are and what is actually happening in this moment. So mindfulness means being full of mind, mind in the sense of being present and knowing what is happening as it happens without all the commentary and judgement which usually go along with it.

Now, this quality of being present is a very essential component of every Buddhist path—Theravada, Chinese, Japanese or Tibetan. At the heart of all Buddhist practice is this quality of being present and aware of what is going on both within us and outside. A pure knowing that is without commentary, judgement or criticism.

- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

(From a teaching on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of the Body, now available in the Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Archive)