Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

we are seeing and feeling, and in projecting our
judgments out onto everything we see off a hairline
trigger. Just being familiar with this deeply
entrenched pattern and watching it as it happens can
lead to greater non-judgmental receptivity and
acceptance.
A non-judging orientation certainly does not mean
that you cease knowing how to act or behave
responsibly in society, or that anything anybody does
is okay. It simply means that we can act with much
greater clarity in our own lives, and be more
balanced, more effective, and more ethical in our
activities, if we know that we are immersed in a
stream of unconscious liking and disliking which
screens us from the world and from the basic purity of
our own being. The mind states of liking and disliking
can take up permanent residency in us,
unconsciously feeding addictive behaviors in all
domains of life. When we are able to recognize and
name the seeds of greediness or craving, however
subtle, in the mind's constant wanting and pursuing of
the things or results that we like, and the seeds of
aversion or hatred in our rejecting or maneuvering to
avoid the things we don't like, that stops us for a
moment and reminds us that such forces really are at
work in our own minds to one extent or another
almost all the time. It's no exaggeration to say that