What's So Great About Now? | March 16, 2014
Mindfulness, accompanied by clear
comprehension, differs from ordinary awareness. Rather than seeing the
conventional features of objects more clearly, mindfulness goes beyond
them to perceive something quite specific—the ultimate characteristics
common to all formations, good or bad. There are only three of these:
impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-selfness. (Note that beauty
isn't among them.) These traits are unwelcome—unsatisfactory. So the
more mindfulness one has, the clearer dukkha becomes.
—Cynthia Thatcher, “What’s So Great About Now?”
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