PAY ATTENTION!

A Mountain Pond

Okay, on the Buddhist path, we usually talk about mindfulness, which is a good word for it, but to some extent, as you go about your business on a typical day, it amounts to paying attention.

Kind of like the claim that awakening always happens by accident, which my inner lawyer resists, the point is that realizations and flashes of awakening can occur at any time, often when you least expect them, and you are far more likely to notice…