Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

mindfulness in the sitting practice. Invoking qualities
of elevation, massiveness, majesty, unmovingness,
rootedness, helps bring these qualities directly into
posture and attitude.
It is important to invite these qualities into your
meditation all the time. Practicing over and over again
embodying dignity, stillness, an unwavering
equanimity in the face of any mind state which
presents itself, especially when you are not in a grave
state of distress or turmoil, can provide a solid,
reliable foundation for maintaining mindfulness and
equanimity, even in periods of extreme stress and
emotional turmoil. But only if you practice, practice,
practice.
Although it is tempting to do so, you can't just think
that you understand how to be mindful, and save
using it for only those moments when the big events
hit. They contain so much power they will overwhelm
you instantly, along with all your romantic ideas about
equanimity and knowing how to be mindful.
Meditation practice is the slow, disciplined work of
digging trenches, of working in the vineyards, of
bucketing out a pond. It is the work of moments and
the work of a lifetime, all wrapped into one.