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Dhamma by Ajahn Pasanno

One of the necessary aspects of mindfulness is that it’s actually sensitive and attuned to the time and place, to the people, and to the results that are going to take place.

There is a relinquishing of selfish interest, and one does things in a way that are based in non-delusion rather than delusion.

It’s not just about being so focused on something, thinking that just being mindful of one little thing is going to be enough.

The way the mind works is that I can look down and see the clock there and I can see what it’s doing. But there’s all sorts of other things happening around it, and that’s a part of mindfulness: seeing the context of our actions, seeing the context of our relationship with ourselves and others.