Path of Mindfulness

in Daily life

LIVING MEDITATION

REFLECTIONS ON

MEDITATION

CREATIVE LIVING

Living Meditation

SILENT MIND + OPEN HEART

Meditation for householders

Meditation means cultivating the mind to achieve insight wisdom and ultimately- liberation_to sense an openness of heart and a clear seeing.

Based on our inherent quality of intelligence, we can attain enlightenment while living household life and contemplating impermanence within our self.

What is ‘cultivating the mind’?

To understand the mind you have to watch and pay attention with an uncluttered and silent mind.

Try to experience watching yourself in silence. That silence is the silence of the

mind free from discriminations, free from likes and dislikes, free from clinging to impressions.

To meditate, no need to sit in

padmasana!

Thoughts and emotions by themselves are just momentary and possess no life of their own. By clinging to them you prolong their stay.

Only when your mind is free from clinging and rejecting, you can see anger as anger, desire as desire. Understand and deal with anger, desire and ignorance as they occur. Train your mind to watch itself even while you are busy with your normal life.

Meditation =

Mindfulness + Equanimity

If you can be mindful without judgement

and without likes and dislikes then you are

practicing with an inner silence and

equanimity.

Staying with the moment and viewing

everything without likes and dislikes.

What is equanimity?

Equanimity is when the heart begins to

open and we find a capacity to experience

all that the world presents_ with balance,

with love with openness.

Begin to listen to our relationship to world,

to observe it, to learn from it and learn a

wise way of relating to it.

REFLECTIONS ON

MEDITATION

Silent mind,

Sila, Panna, Samadhi

Silent Mind

A truly silent mind is relaxed, yet alert and

sensitive to its surroundings. This is

because it is devoid of judging, clinging or

rejecting yet compassionate.

The silent mind is free from hatred, anger,

jealousy, confusion and conflict.

By their nature, thoughts are transient and

go if the ‘I’ interferes and says ”Let them

Go”

How can excessive indulgence in

sense pleasures be avoided?

Can you experience sense pleasure

without being a slave to it?

To be free of sense pleasure is neither to

cling to it nor to run away from it but to

learn to be free in yourself.

Realize your freedom in the present

moment being mindful in the moment.

SILA

Right Speech [Samma vaca]

Refrain from: falsehood, slander, harsh words and frivolous speech

Right Action [Samma kammanta]

Abstain from: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct

Right Livelihood [Samma ajiva]

Abstain from: trading in arms, human beings, animal slaughter, intoxicants and poisons

The Four Noble Truths

Suffering,

Cause,

Cessation,

Way

Panna

Right Understanding [Samma ditthi]

Knowledge of the four noble truths:

Suffering, Cause of suffering, Cessation of

suffering and Way leading to the

Cessation of suffering.

Right Thoughts [Samma sankappa]

Thoughts free from: Lust, attachment, ill

will and cruelty

Panna:

Penetrating insight wisdom

[Understanding + Intents]

To look into yourself directly is to come

back to your own source and to reach an

inner equilibrium and silence.

It is only from this inner equilibrium that

you can view the outer chaos objectively

as a circumstantial situation.

See the cause behind the chaos , resolve

it in the best way for the circumstances.

Samadhi: Striving to Freedom

Right Mindfulness

Right Spiritual Effort

Right Perseverence _Collectedness

Samadhi: One Pointedness of Mind

Right Effort [Samma Vayama] : To discard

evil that has already arisen; To prevent the

arising of unarisen evil; To develop

unarisen good; and To promote the good

that has already arisen.

Right Mindfulness [Samma sati]:

Mindfulness with regard to body, feelings,

mental formations and ideas, thoughts,

conceptions and things (dhammas).

Samadhi

Right Concentration [Samma Samadhi]:

One Pointedness of Mind

Creative Living

Personal Management,

Intelligent living

Personal Management:

Put first things first

Are you an effective manager of yourself ?

Follow your own deep values, their source.

Act to actualize your proactive first creation.

The Laws of Love and the Laws

of Life:

When we love unconditionally, we help others to feel secure and safe, validated and affirmed in their essential worth, identity and integrity.

As human beings we are responsible for our lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions and not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to our values.

Personal Management:

Organize & execute around priorities

FIRST: Important -Urgent,

then

[+Important-not-urgent]

Focus on relationships & results

Know when you got to say a firm ‘NO’

Key life areas of individuals...

Six major deposits that build the

emotional Bank Account:

1) Understanding the individual; 2)

Attending to the little things; 3)

Keeping commitments: 4) Clarifying

expectations; 5) Showing personal

integrity; 6) Apologizing sincerely when

you make a withdrawal.

Creative Living

Intelligent living avoids passivity and

impulsiveness and practices patience

and panna [wisdom]

Intelligent living means skilful and creative

living.

The ordinary living awareness itself is

where the essence of spirituality can be

found.

THANK YOU