Nicolae TOMOZEIU

MINDFULNESS

     ▲ is the awareness that arises from paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally;       (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

     ▼ is based meditation with focusing on the breath and observe your wandering mind;

      ◄  its principles are:

The most of what is in our mind is the creation of our imagination.  The imagination is the result of our thoughts, which are bursting with expectations and worries (hopes and fears).  

The main problem is that our thoughts are jumping/changing from one moment to another one. The solution is simple: look at our thoughts with awareness and consider that having a certain thought doesn’t mean that we have to believe it. Generally our mind creates our model for good and wrong, and from here satisfactions and fears. And this keeps us away from our present moment, which is the only that counts. Observing our mind with mindfulness is the price for our liberation from worries, fears.   

      ► Example of Mindfulness course:  mindfulness-based stress-reduction (University of Massachusetts Medical School)         https://palousemindfulness.com/

According to Wuxing - a text from the 4-th century BC, which extends the lessons of the Inward training, each of us has five potential virtues that need to  be cultivated:

   i) goodness;

   ii) propriety (cuviinta, corretteza, fatsoen);

   iii) knowledge;

   iv) ritual;

   v) sagacity (perspicace).

No virtue is an absolute norm for how to be. We have to cultivate ourselves constantly so that these virtues modulate one another. 

                      

                       To end anger, there is nothing better than poetry;

                       To set aside worry, there is nothing better than music.

 "A fight is going inside me - said the old Cherokee teaching his grandson  - a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, sorrow, greed, guilt, resentment, envy, regret, false pride, arrogance, inferiority, superiority, self-pity, ego. The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, kindness, serenity, humility, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too".  After a while the voice of the grandson said with curiosity: "Which wolf will win"? The old Cherokee said simple: "The one you feed".

(Kristin Neff, Self-compassion, pag 98)

Three people are talking in the other world. One says, "I haven't done much in life, but I've done a lot of good deeds." The second says, "I did not do good, but I did well things I knew to do." The third says, "I did good deeds and good things." God hears them and says: “What are you doing here? What you did is not judged here. Here have their place those who lived the life I gave them and which had to be lived and valued only as a gift. I did not ask you to correct the world I made neither by good deeds or deeds. "

                                 (Alexandru Dragomir - Dictate from afternoon sleep-wake (1997)

 WISDOM

If you click on the photo here-under a small list with lesson-ideas about life will be open. These are in my oppinion wisdom related ideas that belong to the personality represented in the photo.

   Lao Tzu                Confucius                 Socrates                   Rumi                 Shakespeare     Leonardo da Vinci    Albert Einstein     Nicolae Iorga