<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b020b5e-3a2e-49ff-89ef-85282e2ed3c3/2387B167-E74C-4308-9FF6-1D9A2B480C22/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe14.html" href="http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe14.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.urbandharma.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe14.html"> You can't develop <SPAN id="__firefox-findbar-search-id">mindfulness</SPAN> by force. Active teeth gritting willpower won't do you any good at all. As a matter of fact, it will hinder progress. <SPAN id="__firefox-findbar-search-id">Mindfulness</SPAN> cannot be cultivated by struggle. It grows by realizing, by letting go, by just settling down in the moment and letting yourself get comfortable with whatever you are experiencing. This does not mean that <SPAN id="__firefox-findbar-search-id">mindfulness</SPAN> happens all by itself. Far from it. Energy is required. Effort is required. But this effort is different from force. <SPAN id="__firefox-findbar-search-id">Mindfulness</SPAN> is cultivated by a gentle effort, by effortless effort. The meditator cultivates <SPAN id="__firefox-findbar-search-id">mindfulness</SPAN> by constantly reminding himself in a gentle way to maintain his awareness of whatever is happening right now. Persistence and a light touch are the secrets. <SPAN id="__firefox-findbar-search-id">Mindfulness</SPAN> is cultivated by constantly pulling oneself back to a state of awareness, gently, gently, gently.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe14.html"><SPAN id="__firefox-findbar-search-id">Mindfulness</SPAN> is not trying to achieve anything. It is just looking.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2387B167-E74C-4308-9FF6-1D9A2B480C22/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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