When in mediation practice, we use the phrase “Just sit”. It does not mean to sit passively and do nothing. It is sitting with an Equanimeous stance based on deepening both your intellectual and experiential understanding of your existence. It is an endeavour at deepening of our understanding of how our cravings, desires and attachment to material objects can be the roots of our sufferings.
When practising mindfulness , we cultivate and strengthen awareness enough to take a step back and not merely react. With mindful awareness , we can insert a gap or a pause between us and what we experience so that we are no longer carried away by our reactive patterns. In that little gap, there exist the freedom to respond in a fresh and less predetermined way.
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