THE NIÀN FORUM

I draw and write simple quotes daily on mindfulness, relationships, life, etc. for my Instagram posts (@MingMindfulness). Thought to share the mindfulness ones with everyone here, I hope it inspires you to pause, reflect or sit.

Today my meditation and sangha learning journey ends in HangZhou and I will be heading to BJ to resume my work with due diligence. I had deliberately make it a routine to come back at the end of every month to this sangha community to practice deep listening and loving speech. These six days of practice had made me realise how precious is our human frame and mindfulness meditation is very deep and wonderful. "When your mind does not chase after its object, how can the object bind the mind? You just allow phenomena to appear and transform according to their true nature and you are no longer caught in the ideas of permanence and annihilation." "Let us live deeply, free from our afflictions, aware of impermanence so that life does not drift away without meaning." 「是日已過，命亦隨減」； 「但念無常，慎勿放逸」。

I am very grateful that I could attend the weekly Sunday "Take A Pause" hosted by our niàn Life curator Erin last night. She shared a poem by Donna Ashworth from her book, I Wish I Knew. Source: Donna Ashworth Facebook Indeed we are fortunate to have this body this life to realise many dreams along our journey till our last breath. How can we pay more mindful attention to our entire body from moment to moment in order to prepare ourselves to ride the unexpected waves of challenges in life? 肉身难得，人生无常。 洁身自爱，身心净化。