mindfulness
You smart kids and I'm sure you can understand and put into practice what you say.
The Great I found it thin and deep, but anyone willing to engage the hearts and minds will be able to understand it and follow it.
Children, having peeled a tangerine, you eat with awareness or distracted.
What it means to eat a tangerine in awareness?
eating a tangerine, you know that you are eating. It fully enjoy the flavor and sweetness. Peeling Mandarin, you know that you are peeling; unplugging a piece and put it in your mouth, you know that you are removing and bringing to your mouth, savoring the fragrance and sweetness of mandarin, you know who you are gustanzo the fragrance and sweetness.
Children, what it means to eat a tangerine without awareness?
eating a tangerine, do not you know that you are eating. I do not enjoy the fragrance and sweetness.
Peeling Mandarin, do not you know that you are peeling, when you remove a piece and put it in your mouth. do not know that you are removing and bringing to your mouth; enjoy the fragrance and sweetness of mandarin, you do not know who are enjoying the fragrance and sweetness.
doing so, you can not appreciate the beautiful and precious nature of Mandarin.
If you are not aware of eating, Mandarin is not real.
If the Mandarin is not real, even those who eat it is real.
is what it means to eat a tangerine without awareness.
From the Life of Siddhartha Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh
