tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840594864819574154.post3948178206154528028..comments2023-07-06T02:36:14.910-07:00Comments on A Window is Where the Wall is Absent: What's the big deal about the present moment?Colleen Loehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048649046228516513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840594864819574154.post-10337517838653687282010-01-26T18:09:28.791-08:002010-01-26T18:09:28.791-08:00Yea....!Yea....!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10007084673005307163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840594864819574154.post-76425055856818076342010-01-26T06:28:09.092-08:002010-01-26T06:28:09.092-08:00Hi Cyn! On the surface the present moment can look...Hi Cyn! On the surface the present moment can look very boring- stopped at a red light, waiting for the computer to boot up, standing in line at the grocery, and all the millions of mundane moments that make up the bulk of our lives. Many times I've felt that to sit in meditation is a torture of boredom. I can remember asking Jon Kabat-Zinn, "Uh, why do we pay attention to our breath? One breath is like the next and it seems like a boring waste of time." He wouldn't answer my question and said I had to find the answer myself, and this was actually very helpful, and I have really, really looked for the answer to that question. And somewhere along the line I bumped into the obvious invisible fact of being or awareness which underlies every moment and makes it miraculous. Boredom results from lack of attention, not from any inherent boring-ness to the moment. When attention is given generously to the moment, even to the moment of doing nothing, boredom disappears.Colleen Loehrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13048649046228516513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840594864819574154.post-52089020507066210062010-01-26T06:11:54.483-08:002010-01-26T06:11:54.483-08:00Spiritual prowess - what a great phrase, yet we ar...Spiritual prowess - what a great phrase, yet we are all guilty of wanting it. :) I like how accessible you make it Colleen, and the quote "and no one has pointed this out." It is a thing we experience and love but when we are not experiencing it it seems so paltry.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10007084673005307163noreply@blogger.com