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Mindfulness is unbiased. It is not for or against anything, just like a mirror, which does not judge what it reflects.
Mindfulness has no goal other than the seeing itself.
It doesn’t try to add to what’s happening or subtract from it, to improve it in any way.
It isn’t detached, like a person standing on a hill far away from an experience, observing it with binoculars.
It is a form of participation—you are fully living out your life, but you are awake in the midst of it—and it is not limited to the meditation hall.
It can be used on a simple process like the breathing, or on highly charged and unpleasant emotions like fear or loneliness.
It can also follow us into the ordinary life situations that make up our day.
Eventually, it becomes more a way of living than a technique.
One word that I personally have come to associate with mindful living is intimacy.
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