By welcoming beautiful qualities of heart, and becoming mindful of difficult qualities, our hearts become a sanctuary for ourselves. This sanctuary is a gift to the world and is also the place our love comes to serve the world.
Experience manifests in terms of ‘fields’. Opening and holding a field (such as the bodily field) with mindfulness brings harmony. Conflicts can be relaxed, self-positions abandoned. This is also a model for relationships with other people.
In mindfulness, body teaches us what mindfulness is. When we steadily incline towards sensitive simplicity and getting comfortable – and absorb that, the result is samadhi.
Dhammas are wave-like qualia rather than things. They are conditionally arisen. With dispassionate mindfulness they can subside. They need not define or belong to anyone.
Mindfulness of mind is the ability to hold the range of mind states in the field of mind so that dispassionate presence is realized. This ‘holding’ is not grasping any phenomenon as a real thing, more relating to it as a potential citta characteristic.
To respond to what arises is important – how to avoid blind reactions? Citta, core presence, can be accessed through mindfulness. When it is stable, a true response arises.
The energy of practice has to avoid the pitfalls of tanha (craving) but maintain chanda (motivation). Mindfulness and clear comprehension find what is suitable (sappaya).
