Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

C. Realization
1. Mindfulness
With so many miscellaneous events in life, it is easy to
forget their identity with the principles of daily life
meditation. It is essential, therefore, to maintain
mindfulness to integrate one's endeavors with whatever
main meditations one practices.
2. Progress
It shows very good progress when the daily life
meditations are always mindfully integrated with
whatever one is doing.
3. Habit
The yogi must guard against the disease of
over-familiarity. In this mental attitude, the noble
aspirations and the mantras just flow on without any
attention being paid to them, without their having any
real relationship with one's actions. Without
mindfulness, the mind flies off to other things, while the
mantra, etc., may go on being repeated like a cracked
record on a record player. For real daily life practice,
mindfulness is essential while maintaining a high degree
of samatha, or it will not be effective. I have written an
essay on this illness and have suggested there many
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