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Mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness meditation is one of the most direct meditations for
transcending the mind. It involves becoming aware of the present
moment and the thoughts that arise in the mind-field. By doing so,
you will establish a natural non-attachment to your thoughts and
thinking process. This happens because you start to become the
witness of your mind, instead of being involved in it. The
unconscious identification with the mind will dissolve more and more
when you deepen your witnessing.
There are basically two primary forms of meditating. One of them
consists of training and focussing the mind, while the other form
consists mostly of mindfulness meditation, plus the no-mind
meditation, which is basically the result of advanced mindfulness
meditation. When you get the hang of mindfulness, you will gradually
become mindless, meaning that all thought activities cease as you
become fully aware of consciousness itself.

Practising mindfulness:
Mindfulness is not a meditation in which you focus on some thing or
idea in specific, on the contrary; you try to become fully alert, fully
conscious as you are, without any modifications of the mind
disturbing your beingness in the now. You shift your awareness to the
state of being a witness to everything that is, including your mind's
content when it arises. It can be practised in a meditative
setting/atmosphere but the deepest purpose of this meditation is to
make you capable of residing in full and awake consciousness at all
times and in every thinkable situation.
When practicing mindfulness meditation as an exercise you can just
go and sit somewhere you are comfortable with and become
focussed. Don't become focussed on anything in specific; just
become focussed, centred in consciousness, aware, as if you are
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