Q: What is mindfulness?
A: For many this is being in the moment. Focus and attention on ones activity.
Q: Is mindfulness the opposite of escapism?
A: Yes. It is the opposite of mindless activity.
Q: Is mindfulness a type of meditation?
A: Yes. Mindfulness can be preparatory to formal meditations such as walking or sitting. It can also be a constant awareness practice.
Q: Is mindfulness religion free?
A: Can be. Mindfulness is a pragmatic, positive, psychology technique similar to 'being in the zone'. The religiously inclined may find it similar to 'remembering' in Islam, or 'going with the flow' in New Age Taoism.
Q: Is it connected with Zen or Buddhism?
A: It is used by ninjas. 😌
Q: Is it suitable for beginners or advanced practitioners of Buddhist Dharma?
A: Yes. Mindfulness is being attentive to the moment. Suitable for beginners training to focus. It is also ideally, in a sense, a state without object and viewer. Mindfulness therefore is considered the ideal permanent, perfect unfolding or Buddhist Nirvana.
Q: What can we be mindful of?
A: Ideally everything. Buddhist monastics and seasoned practitioners may walk and eat, wash up and clean mindfully. Simple, repetitive, single-tasking is the Buddhist Middle Way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(Buddhism)
A: For many this is being in the moment. Focus and attention on ones activity.
Q: Is mindfulness the opposite of escapism?
A: Yes. It is the opposite of mindless activity.
Q: Is mindfulness a type of meditation?
A: Yes. Mindfulness can be preparatory to formal meditations such as walking or sitting. It can also be a constant awareness practice.
Q: Is mindfulness religion free?
A: Can be. Mindfulness is a pragmatic, positive, psychology technique similar to 'being in the zone'. The religiously inclined may find it similar to 'remembering' in Islam, or 'going with the flow' in New Age Taoism.
Q: Is it connected with Zen or Buddhism?
A: It is used by ninjas. 😌
Q: Is it suitable for beginners or advanced practitioners of Buddhist Dharma?
A: Yes. Mindfulness is being attentive to the moment. Suitable for beginners training to focus. It is also ideally, in a sense, a state without object and viewer. Mindfulness therefore is considered the ideal permanent, perfect unfolding or Buddhist Nirvana.
Q: What can we be mindful of?
A: Ideally everything. Buddhist monastics and seasoned practitioners may walk and eat, wash up and clean mindfully. Simple, repetitive, single-tasking is the Buddhist Middle Way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(Buddhism)