mindfulness-in-plain-english.md
Chapter 1: Why practice mindfulness?
- Being human comes with an inherent dissatisfaction about life. You can supress it for a while, but it will come back. You believe fulfilling a desire will make you eternally happy, but that fades too. [wonderfully framed in the book, need to definitely reread this]
- Our experience keep changing, no two moments are the same. But culture has an odd reponse to this flow of experience. We grasp experiences that we deem "good", ignore experiences that we deem "boring" and we try to reject / rush away experience we deem as "bad".
- "The essence of life is suffering" - Buddha. All experiences come to an end.
- Trying to control things which we can't leads to suffering. Recognize desire / fear, but don't chase it.
- Just being able to see who you are internally without judgment can change your life.
Chapter 2: What meditation isn't?
Chapter 3: What meditation is?
- Meditate with the intention of finding out about the nature of experience (what is the fundamental reality?) by yourself.