Mindfulness is only one small part of the whole picture, even though it can be an almost endless pursuit. There are so many other factors to develop also. Some of you may have heard me talking about things such as discipline, patience, generosity, diligence and concentration. Today I would like to share some thoughts on wisdom. According to many highly accomplished teachers all these things are needed to develop a completely peaceful mind. Wisdom has many different aspects, although we tend to think of it as something learnt from a book, there are many other ways of developing it. Most of us recognise that life itself is wisdom. Do we actually learn from it though? One of my teachers always talks about how we walk in circles, mostly habitual events in our life. We get to the end of the circle (of a negative habit) sometimes in despair wondering why these things happen to us constantly.
Before we can evaluate it and learn from it though, we get caught up in it again. Mindfulness gives us some space to evaluate daily (if you have a daily practise). There are times when we go beyond the breath watching practise alone and integrate reflection. This is a small part of our effort towards gaining more wisdom.
Please allow some time today and every day for some mindfulness.
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