Mindfulness is the door to our Monastery. We practice mindfulness to realize that everything around us can be an element of our Monastic experience. Our temple, our monastery, our lives are in the here and now: this is important to live by example and also gives us a home to go to where ever we are. Mindfulness is not something out there, or a idea that is in abstract form but rather a concrete example to live and follow and explore each and every moment. There are no down times in life. When waiting in line be mindful, when tasting food be mindful, when angry be mindful of what made you angry. etc... Shaner Sensei has said" our lives are our Monastery", we are responsible for maintaining them . The good news is each moment is a new one and an opportunity to do better, to start fresh to begin anew.
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