Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

unique piece of what it means to be alive, at least
while we have our brief moment in the sun. But we
also have the singular capacity of letting our thinking
mind entirely cloud our transit through this world. We
are at risk of never realizing our uniqueness - at least
as long as we remain in the shadow cast by our
thought habits and conditioning.
Buckminster Fuller, the discoverer/inventor of the
geodesic dome, at age thirty-two contemplated
suicide for a few hours one night at the edge of Lake
Michigan, as the story goes, after a series of
business failures that left him feeling he had made
such a mess of his life that the best move would be
for him to remove himself from the scene and make
things simpler for his wife and infant daughter.
Apparently everything he had touched or undertaken
had turned to dust in spite of his incredible creativity
and imagination, which were only recognized later.
However, instead of ending his life, Fuller decided
(perhaps because of his deep conviction in the
underlying unity and order of the universe, of which
he knew himself to be an integral part) to live from
then on as if he had died that night.
Being dead, he wouldn't have to worry about how
things worked out any longer for himself personally
and would be free to devote himself to living as a