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Old 07-11-2020, 08:01 PM
 
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Who wants to sit in meditation watching their thoughts?
Because, if you watch thought, it disappears. If you catch it at its gestation, it shies away and vanishes.



I can do that driving my car if I wanted to.
Try. It is not as easy done, as written here. Also, if you REALLY try, you should be not in control of deadly weapon at the time. Unless you are a perfect automatic driver.



Wouldn't gently stilling them be 'the thing'?
Yes, it is ONE of the things. Not THE Thing. And, due to concentration required, it is done much much better during being still in quiet dark room, in some relaxed pose and without outside distractions. Did I just type - meditation?


(Like shewing away a fly. Then, ah, the peace.)

Ah, yes.. for how long? As, just like annoying fly, that always shows to sugar or...., another thought creeps into mind, followed by yet another and another and so it goes on and on and on. It takes YEARS of dedication to achieve true still mind. As I said - easier said, than done.
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Old 07-11-2020, 08:06 PM
 
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Who wants to sit in meditation watching their thoughts?
I can do that driving my car if I wanted to.
Wouldn't gently stilling them be 'the thing'?
(Like shewing away a fly. Then, ah, the peace.)

Thanks.
When I used to commute by car I would often remember leaving the house and then walking into the office. I had no memories of the commute, it was like an instinct. Talk about emptying the mind.
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Old 07-11-2020, 09:19 PM
 
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Not a Buddhist and not a student of it (except for a world religions class in college). My therapist subscribed to it, and I know it informed her approach to therapy. She was a big fan of mindfulness, and I was developing an appreciation of it before I came to her. I meditate as needed. I keep a bulletin journal as a way of managing my ADD. I often step back from my more OCD behaviors to analyze why I’m doing them. I think mindfulness just makes life better by enhancing it. I appreciate things more. Certainly if I had adopted it as a lifestyle at a younger age, I would have realized my mother was an abusive monster before I turned 40.

I don’t come at it from a religious perspective, but I suspect the Buddhists just figured it out and codified their version of it a few centuries before a lot of cultures and religions did.
It is great that mindfulness has helped you with ADD and OCD. It helps me when i get stressed and get emotional, and the situation that I am stressing about is not really something I can do anything about, but I think I need to do something. It helps me to focus on really what I am feeling in a concrete way and where it is lodged in my body. I know this sounds odd but focusing on that and control my breathing eventually gets me out of the funk.
About the bolded, that is very sad. Wish you healing with your practice.
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Old 07-11-2020, 09:27 PM
 
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I don’t come at it from a religious perspective, but I suspect the Buddhists just figured it out and codified their version of it a few centuries before a lot of cultures and religions did.
I agree. The difference between prayer as a theist and Mindfulness as I see it, in the first you are seeking strength and resolution out of faith, and in the latter, you gather your own inner resources.
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Old 07-12-2020, 10:10 AM
 
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When I used to commute by car I would often remember leaving the house and then walking into the office. I had no memories of the commute, it was like an instinct. Talk about emptying the mind.

This is excellent example of how much human mind is in Maya, not in Reality.
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