Mindfulness training
We humans have 2 operating systems:
- Once the well-known Self-consciousness with which we think, feel, want, remember, plan; which ours Action controls influenced by our values, ideas, attitudes, prejudices, drives and needs, expectations of ourselves and of others. The importance and thus the influence of the individual components on our well-being and behavior varies from person to person and is constantly changing.
- We experience our second operating system through mindfulness, which arises when we let go of thinking, feeling and wanting, of the past and the future. Then we begin to perceive what is and time loses meaning. In mindfulness we can observe ego functions, how they think and feel and plan, how they assess and evaluate; and aEverything that was and could come loses meaning.
If we in moment remain - and one follows the other without time passing - we step out of individuality, out of isolation and are connected - with everything that is. In this one Connectedness There is serenity in the here and now, which enables a broad horizon because it is free from the restrictions of thinking, feeling and wanting. As free-floating attention, it penetrates the barriers of materiality and becomes a spiritual consciousness that transforms the ego consciousness to a higher and universal level.
Religions try to give us access to the second operating system, although belief in a God is intended to open the door, but this condition stands in the way.
The traditions of the mystics and Far Eastern spiritual teachers show us that it can be done without religious door openers and show that the grace of the 2nd operating system lies in all of us without conditions. If you feel within yourself, let your stomach and heart brain become active, if you attentively let go of thinking, which almost always follows the same program, then the inkling that there is a divine being within you, complete, without beginning and without end, which inhabits your body between birth and death, then this inkling becomes a certainty, a knowledge that expands your self-consciousness.
In the meditative exercise, the second, the spiritual operating system, becomes more and more important, slowly flowing into your existence, into your everyday life, until you can switch at any time, until you finally drive on two tracks and can more easily absorb the negative implications (anger, suffering, envy, disappointment, bossiness) of your ego consciousness. Practice creates skill, a mindful attitude that determines your life. It does not come from outside, not from God, not from the Guru. These can be useful as virtual or real helpers. The important thing is that it (mindfulness) is contained within you as the consciousness of your being and you can develop it when you begin to observe your self.
Would you like to experience this yourself?