We notice that we have been lost in thought, we mentally label it thinking gently and without judgment and we come back to the breath. When we have a thought no matter how wild or bizarre it may be we just let it go and come back to the breath, come back to the situation here. Each meditation session is a journey of discovery to understand the basic truth of who we are. In the beginning the most important lesson of meditation is seeing the speed of the mind. What we are talking about is very practical.
Mindfulness practice is simple and completely feasible.
And because we are working with the mind that experiences life directly, just by sitting and doing nothing, we are doing a tremendous amount. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is holder of the Buddhist and Shambhala lineages of Ch gyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He has received teachings from many of the great Buddhist masters of this century, including Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche and his father Trungpa Rinpoche. In 1995 he was recognized as the incarnation of the great nineteenth-century Buddhist teacher Mipham Rinpoche.