Mindfulness provides grounding and pure experience of life's gifts and tribulations, allowing all to be witnessed through clear eyes, and open ears. A deep integration of mindfulness provides peace through all turbulence, clarity in chaos, and love within situations of strife and tension. Though apparently simple and often overlooked on the spiritual path, mindfulness, when applied correctly, is a very powerful and universal tool. The same simplicity within mindfulness applies in the beginning as in the end, simply deepening and growing. Internal change and self-initiated evolution must be preceded by awareness if such change is to be permanent.
Awareness is therefore the first step in the transformational process.
There must be an acknowledgement that something is there to change, that something is not right, not balanced or whole. Mindfulness is therefor the foundation of the Buddha s dharma the spiritual teaching. By definition, mindfulness is simply being aware, paying attention to what one is doing on all levels of one s existence being conscious, awake. This is both very simple and infinitely complex. Mindfulness is very simple on one level because it is simply being.