What can we do to arrive at mindfulness?
Listen to Bert and I for a good dose of Downeast humor and wisdom. You’ve heard the exclamation, “You can’t get there from here!” Well, that’s from one of the original Bert and I stories. In another one, a craggy Maine denizen is sitting on a porch in East Vassalboro, when an impetuous tourist races his loud sportscar back and forth through town. Finally the driver stops and asks our guy, “Which way to East Vassalboro?”, and the reply is “Dontcha move a goddam inch!”
How do you get somewhere when you’re already there? In ancient China, Joshu asked Zen Master Nansen, “How can we find The Way?” Nansen replied, “If you try to turn toward it, you go away from it.” If you’re already in East Vassalboro, going in any direction is wrong. The Way, the Tao, is everywhere, every moment – exactly where you are right now, so anything special you do to create it or find it simply takes you away from it.
Zen Mindfulness is about connecting with The Way and living in moment-by-moment awareness of it. So, how will you arrive at mindfulness?
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