all of a sudden, everybody is practicing mindfulness

everybody says they're practicing mindfulness

but as i said, this is hard work, i mean this is not just a concept

so it does require, in some sence ,a radical change in your own lifestyle

to carve out some time everyday to practice,

and I'm serious about this, non doing

this is so serious that it is important not to take too seriously ,and I'm serious about that,

so lots of humour is required

but it also involves, to say, in my case for instance

getting up early, day in, day out

and making time to just be

nothing, having no email, no phone calls, no television, no, you know, nothing

just sitting and, or lying down

you can do this sitting, standing, lying down, walking

but it just devoting sometime during the day to what we call formal meditation practice

that's hard, making that lifestyle change is hard and enormous

and our patients do it by the thousands

so it's like regular people can take to this and do, like ducks to water

because it's like giving your life back to yourself

but who's got time for this crap?

so it's much better to talk about mindfulness than it is to actually practice

because that's hard work

Verbatim :Onishi Keisuke