To all you overthinkers….

I asked a student how long he meditated each day and he said “20 minutes”.

I then asked him what he did while meditating and he replied ”I think about my breathing.”

He wasn’t meditating, he was spending 20 minutes a day thinking….

He couldn’t differentiate between thinking and paying attention.

Paying attention is mindfulness.

And not for 20 minutes a day, but all day in everything we do.

We think with the self, we pay attention with our consciousness.

From paying attention and being mindful thinking slows down and insight and wisdom arise.

“Mindfulness is the path to the deathless, the mindful never die, the mindless are as if dead already.” – Dhammapada 21