Mindfulness
Daily Mindfulness Practice
as taught by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
“Be happy. Dance with yourself inside your mind. And focus on beauty all around you. Look at things, feel things. Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment. Mindfulness simply means that as we go through the day, at least initially, we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We feel happy.”
Zen Master RamaMindfulness – the Key to Happiness
“Then, during the day, after your morning meditation, you should practice mindfulness. It’s a fun game that you can practice all day long. All-day, after you’ve meditated in the morning, as thoughts come in your mind – emotions, feelings – realize that most of them aren’t your own. And just bounce out anything negative, anything negative, unhappy, angry, jealous, suspicious, anything that would make you unhappy and destroy your inner calm, your inner equilibrium that you’ve gained from your morning meditation. Just blow it out. Push it away. You gain the inner chi or power to do this from your morning meditation. If you keep doing this, eventually you’ll find that you’ll just be happy all the time. After a while, your mind just will automatically filter these thoughts out and negative impressions that you pick up from others, without even having to think about it very much.”
— Zen Master Rama
Excerpt from Rama’s talk The Non‑Doing of Meditation from the Insights Talk Series