Mindfulness

Life is like the river—running, swift, volatile, never still. You meet life with the heavy burden of memory, of experience; naturally, you never contact life.
(J. Krishnamurti)

Have you ever observed how attachment to a thought happens and a mind-loop develops?  Say, if you are experiencing a feeling of hopelessness and then you come up with the strange conclusion that you are going to lead a hopeless life forever! Do you see what happens here? It all starts with one kind of emotion arising in you, triggered by a negative encounter or an upsetting memory of the past. Your mind somehow decides that this is it and develops a vicious mind-loop. And then you feel even more hopeless because you identify with this thinking. You project negative energy in real life and everything goes downhill from there. Amazingly, your thinking creates the reality for you to experience!

We create lots of these mental attachments and self-fulfilling belief sets in us in both sides of the spectrum, when we feel down as well as when we are exuberant. These thought attachments and belief set prevent us from experiencing life as it is. When we manage to tune into the flow of life, these attachments will dismantle eventually by themselves. The best way to get to this stage is just by observing life, our interaction with it, and everything that happens within ourselves without doing anything about it. These mind-patterns will just dismantle by themselves, by just observing what is going on. The Aha-moment typically just happens when we don’t even seek any answers; just realizing what these mind patterns do to us is enough to set us free.

How to tune into the flow of life then? Observe life with the eyes of an artist and follow your heart! Your mind will naturally calm down. Enjoy!

By Su Zhen