[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Mindfulness Is Extra Bliss

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

September 12, 2007

MINDFULNESS IS EXTRA BLISS

According to  the Buddha, when you are being mindful, then walking is 
mindful, talking is mindful, breathing is mindful, feeling is 
mindful, hearing is mindful, sensation is mindful. You don't need to 
work harder to feel more than you usually feel, or to hear more than 
you usually hear. Rather, mindfulness is extra bliss in some sense. I 
am not particularly trying to make a sales pitch for mindfulness, but 
it is somewhat joyful. You realize that you could be so uplifted by 
being mindful. You begin to feel very good that you could rise beyond 
your regular, ordinary struggles, which don't even require that much 
awareness, but which normally give you tremendous pain and misery and 
unmindfulness....We can always experience some sense of the joy of 
being alive, as human beings.

 From "Mindfulness Discipline: Cutting the Root of Cause and Effect," 
in THE 1981 HINAYANA-MAHAYANA TRANSCRIPTS, page 24.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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