Mindfulness is not just
watching things coming and going.
As the Buddha said, when mindfulness becomes a
governing principle in the mind, it sees things that are unskillful
and it works toward getting rid of them. It sees things that are
skillful and works toward giving rise to them. It actively
gets involved in making things arise and
making things pass away.
So you are taking sides
as you practice. Hopefully, you’re taking sides
with the right side – right view and all the way down
to right concentration – because it really
does make a difference.
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