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everyday mindfulness what a concept what an idea this is not mindfulness mindfulness is now obligation, routine counting commitment this is not mindfulness everyday is one day at a time © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

my mindful mind empty of thoughts paying attention to everything and yet nothing in particular being just here in the present that is all © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

living now being present intently witnessing intently being being with intent without aim without desire without fear simply alert intensely living © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

not two beings just one being the verb alone celebrated by many all beings being in nature mindful loving true © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

my twenty-one year old daughter makes a joke out of "WTF" saying "WT Fuck" and I think this is hilarious

I call it "my mindfulness" though it is not mine it is really "our" mindfulness or rather perhaps "the" mindfulness (a shared phenomenon) or rather a single phenomenon as we are ONE intelligence (one mindful being) expressing itself through infinite space and time intimate space and time all lives, everywhere loving, listening, joying © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

what is mindfulness? mindfulness is paying attention to life as it is which means in this moment for life exists in the moment nowhere else life exists in the body not in the head not in ideas distractions would-be could-be should-be only now © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean