Mindfulness is...

[Midakpa]

In the Noble Eightfold Path, the practice of right mindfulness "sammasati". It is the second factor of the Samadhi Section of the Three Higher Trainings. Sammasati is usually defined as follows by the Buddha:

"Bhikkhus. What is sammasati? This is called sammasati, namely, that a bhikkhu in this Dhamma Vinaya:

"1. Contemplates the body in the body with effort, sampajanna and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world;
2. Contemplates feeling in feelings with effort, sampajanna and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world;
3. Contemplates the mind in the mind with effort, sampajanna and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world;
4. Contemplates dhamma in dhammas with effort, sampajanna and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world."

The above is known as the four satipatthana: kayanupassana (mindfulness of the body), vedananupassana (mindfulness of feelings), cittanupassana (mindfulness of mind) and dhammanupassana (mindfulness of dhammas).

[diablo1974]

Good body, speech and mind coordination plus these 3 combination benefits yourself and others.

[maricisun]

Mindfulness is to be aware of your surrounding, of the people around you. To be observant too. To look out even for the smallest details. If everyone is mindful then the world will be a better place.

[icy]

By: Barbara Turnbull Living reporter, Published on Fri Feb 14 2014
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Ever realize you’ve read pages in a book without absorbing the words or meaning?
That’s an example of living without mindfulness.
New York native Robert Thurman, 72, has perfected the practice, after 50 years of studying and teaching Tibetan Buddhism.



What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a translation of a Tibetan word for remembering — to remember where you are in the present, instead of ruminating in your mind about something that’s happened to you or fantasizing about the future.

Why is it important?

It increases the power of your concentration. It helps people reduce blood pressure, reduce stress. People can certainly learn better when they concentrate better. It’s becoming an important medical intervention, part of a do-it-yourself movement about your health, body and mind. Fear comes about when you worry about what’s going to happen to you. Concentrate on the present and you won’t have time to think and let your mind go off to fear. The thing about mindfulness is that it’s not only meditating, it’s a tool to make you more mindful of everything.

We think of children as being mindful already, but it’s being incorporated more in schools. Why is it important for kids?

In our electronic, highly distractible and very strongly commercialized cultures, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that children are naturally focused and mindful. They watch hours of television a day from a young age. They’re very distracted and it’s a destructive thing from a young age. Developing the power of concentration is not something that we do in education.

Why do you think we’ve become so removed from it?
It’s because of our industrialized society and culture. You were just urged to learn what it is you are good at, do it and be productive.

What are some simply ways people can incorporate mindfulness into their daily lives?
The simplest way is to spend time away from cellphones. Stop working for a period of time in the day, 10 minutes, put aside phones, screens and keyboards and just count their breath, counting one through 10. Their mind will probably get distracted before they get to three, by worrying ‘Am I going to meet my quota?’ or ‘What time is it?’ or remembering ‘Somebody was rude to me during the coffee break.’ They have to learn to detach from that and bring their mind back to their breath. Doing a little of that a day is like doing a calisthenic.
 

[Matibhadra]

Mindfulness is a translation of a Tibetan word for remembering — to remember where you are in the present,

Quite ridiculous. The present does not need to, and actually cannot, be remembered; only the past can.

[Matibhadra]

The guy obviously cannot tell the difference between mindfulness and attention.

[Matibhadra]

Which shows that he lacks any clue on how to put the Dharma into practice.

Indeed, even after many decades of supposed Buddhist studies, the maximum he can do is to repeat the fashionable Jewish formula of ”mindfulness”: forget about the past (one's roots, one's commitments, one's traditions, one's previous realizations), and be only in the ”present” (uprooted, without commitments, without traditions, forgetful of one's previous realizations); therefore, an easy prey for rampant Judaization.

This is what happened to the mass of the peoples in Europe, Middle-East, and beyond who, through violence, mass murderings, and forced conversions, accepted as their own the Jewish ethnic, monomaniac ”god”, and the authority of Jewish immoral scriptures, forgetful (unmindful) of their own rich and powerful spiritual roots, traditions, teachings, and commitments, to the point of thoroughly despising them as ”pagan”.

Therefore, sinister banksters endow a ”Je Tsongkhapa” chair in a prestigious American university, so that a subservient clerk, coincidentally a Dorje Shugden defamer, conveniently forgets (or lacks mindfulness of) the teachings and commitments he previously received from pure Buddhist teachers, and distorts such teachings, encouraging people to abandon mindfulness, and to forget about their past commitments and realizations.