In Zen or in meditation, the idea is that you get to choose where you have your centre of awareness. If you can choose it, there will be very few problems in life then. Of course, there will be some pain, but with less suffering. Pain will still to be there: painful people, challenges and circumstances – they won’t go away, but you won’t suffer on account of such things. That comes when the boat of our consciousness is tossed around by the ruthless waves of discursive thoughts, when the tides of emotions take us on an inconvenient ride of highs and lows. Mindfulness helps you check the weather
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