Via Daily Dharma

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The Rope of Mindfulness | May 10, 2014

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It is mindfulness that places the mind on the chosen object of meditation and returns the mind to that object when it wanders. As a well-known meditation instruction says, ‘Tie the wild elephant of the mind to the post of the meditation object with the rope of mindfulness.’ Mindfulness prevents distraction.

 

—Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr., “Which Mindfulness?”