Ep. 176 – Questions About The Path to Awakening
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Importance of General Mindfulness
There are many times in our lives where we need to engage on the conceptual level and that's totally fine. Indra, my first teacher, he said in those situations which is a lot of our lives the kind of mindfulness we need is not this really pinpoint moment to moment to moment like that. It's more what he called a kind of general mindfulness, a background of mindfulness. We're engaged, we're fully engaged but there's enough awareness that it will pick up if the mind becomes unwholesome as we're in the midst of whatever the engagement is. So that's that's enough and that's the way to practice in the world.
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