Mindfulness

How does mindfulness help you? Here are my experiences in daily life. Before I started meditating more than 10 years ago, I may get irritated for slight things like my wife not having prepared a good dinner when I came home. If she or the children ask me too many questions, gets irritated. At office sometimes I may feel bad because another staff has faulted in his/her work.

But now it is different, even if my wife says something in a very critical way or may get too annoyed with me and say something, to me all those are just sounds. I often now ask her if I can cook and for her to rest and if she says OK, will cook in the early morning and take my lunch to office and makes her happy. Coming after work late and may be hungry, I eat whatever is prepared and no grumblings about the food. I do not consider myself as a thing of value for me except to meditate for my ultimate liberation, and consider me as someone to serve others.

I will be away in a meditation retreat till end of this month and only return in November first week. So please keep up with your mindfulness meditation. Remember when you sit down to meditate, be it on ground or on a chair the thing is not to fight thoughts that arise in your mind, but to observe and let go. Success in meditation comes when you let go of all those thoughts but concentrate on the meditation object only. Aberration is natural in our mind, and it is up to you to see with wisdom and not fight those thoughts and give power to them but just let go. With METTA>