There is a perception that mindfulness is mostly about calming down a restless mind. But it is not. We even tend to believe that the moment we manage to calm our minds, we attain the state of mindfulness and our experience of life is all hunky dory. But in reality it’s a practice to overcome the mind through training and introspection. Truth, it is about training the one who's listening to our mind, the one who's listening to it.
You see, we spend our lives trying to arrange the world so we can feel at peace, right? Yet the one doing the arranging is the one nobody has trained. Everybody told us to look, but nobody taught us how to see. This is the truth: the eye that reacts, worries and clings to different things is not our enemy. It is an untrained student, or an untrained person. What you do not observe, you obey it. That is why it is important to know what you do before you actually do. So watch it. Watch the thought before it becomes a mood, and watch the mood before it becomes a decision. You cannot change the weather, but you can stop being the weather. It is important that we all see it. Each time you pause and see, you loosen the grip of the eye and widen the space around it. The moment that happens, then the wisdom will skyrocket within yourself.
You see, a better life does not begin when the mind goes quiet or silent. It begins when you stop being the one who is shouting and become the one who listens within yourself.
