Griff do you think Dandapani is alluding to our tendency to multitask throughout the day? That used to be such a bragging right that someone was quite capable of multitasking, but as I’ve gotten older I realize now that you just do a bunch of things not very well. I have a little mantra in my head that says to me “OK we’re just doing this right now, nothing else just this.
Griff.......you really are going at this fiercely. You are accesssing some impressive sources.
Maybe what going on here is the basic idea that modern living tends to make us "habituated" to a complex program. We tend to start doing things without really examining the implications or even the purpose.
In order to be able to examine our actions more carefully we have to learn a new way to use our minds, to cogitate. Like any new skill, this takes a while and needs commitment and practice. One starts with simple exercises and builds up. As one becomes more expert, one tends to act more intuitively and not to need the discipline of the original exercise structure.
Maybe this is what they mean by training for constant Mindfulness by using periods of "meditation".
The master lives a life of constant integrated mindfulness while the acolyte still needs to "practice" it.
Before we start going round in circles, we might consider that most "masters" will go off and get on with their lives.......as soldiers, farmers, downhill MTB racers, whatever, while only a very few will go on to teach the state of Mindfulness as a discrete skill.
I would think the trick is to do what Bruce Lee recommended: take from each discipline what you judge to be most useful to enhance your own needs, while not worrying too much about where that particular discipline leads.
Griff do you think Dandapani is alluding to our tendency to multitask throughout the day? That used to be such a bragging right that someone was quite capable of multitasking, but as I’ve gotten older I realize now that you just do a bunch of things not very well. I have a little mantra in my head that says to me “OK we’re just doing this right now, nothing else just this.
Griff.......you really are going at this fiercely. You are accesssing some impressive sources.
Maybe what going on here is the basic idea that modern living tends to make us "habituated" to a complex program. We tend to start doing things without really examining the implications or even the purpose.
In order to be able to examine our actions more carefully we have to learn a new way to use our minds, to cogitate. Like any new skill, this takes a while and needs commitment and practice. One starts with simple exercises and builds up. As one becomes more expert, one tends to act more intuitively and not to need the discipline of the original exercise structure.
Maybe this is what they mean by training for constant Mindfulness by using periods of "meditation".
The master lives a life of constant integrated mindfulness while the acolyte still needs to "practice" it.
Before we start going round in circles, we might consider that most "masters" will go off and get on with their lives.......as soldiers, farmers, downhill MTB racers, whatever, while only a very few will go on to teach the state of Mindfulness as a discrete skill.
I would think the trick is to do what Bruce Lee recommended: take from each discipline what you judge to be most useful to enhance your own needs, while not worrying too much about where that particular discipline leads.