'Mindful Awareness is not a technique; the way we approach meditation is a whole way of life." (18:00:00)
Brother Phap Dung - #9: Practice Basics
https://youtu.be/RoS-zshhF2I?si=6-LRGta1Zxdoe98i&t=1026
17:06:00 to 19:21:00
..... and this is a part of our evolution to not see ourselves separate
so freshness okay waking up and then create that habit so mountain so these are habits that we train in - besides sitting still touching peace feeling calm. these kind of typical things that we normally associate with meditation but those things are also impermanent and can create a lot of suffering if you strive just for that. so this is something you have to be careful about there's a lot of bad rap about meditation it's because people are seeing it as a technique to de-stress to find peace to find happiness so it becomes like a tool like uh to to how to do a startup it's like this is how you get to peace and it doesn't work like that and so here yeah we the way we approach meditation is a whole way of being a way of life so that happens right when you wake up so it's not in the meditation hall but it's an attitude it's a whole way of looking at our place as a human being so it's a little more broad than just the human drama like when things don't go our way right so that's why kind of meditation fails because it's like in the box of using it to get something and we're in the zen tradition you know and we say if you got it you got to let it go that's it's terrible like you get it you know you find peace and then you have to let it go come on you know zen tradition is like that as soon as you get it yeah you you know the the saying you find the buddha chop the head off that's the tradition of zen and it means uh you know even the object of peace and happiness and peace and calmness and transformation healing all that if you make that an object to grasp then you would just become you know a you're applying the same thing the habit outside to meditation so freshness mountain qualities of how you move through the
day okay and then another quality
