Most of the time, we meet life with an agenda.
We judge and compare every moment that comes through our awareness. We immediately ask:
Is this good? Is this useful? Do I like it? What should I do with it?
Every encounter becomes something to fix or control. This can leave us stuck, or simply feeling exhausted.
Through mindfulness, we see that awareness can exist without agenda.
We don’t always have to get something out of paying attention.
We can simply embrace a presence that does not strive, an openness that does not interfere.
In meditation, we don’t need to chase a perfect state, nor turn every breath into bliss.
Our practice is about resting with the experience, letting each moment be, trusting that pure awareness and presence can be enough.
This is not indifference — it is turning toward what is here and seeing it as it is, rather than as we wish it to be.
When awareness is free of agenda, our quality of attention is alive, engaged, yet tender and spacious.
We simply rest in gentle knowing, present, open, and free.
In this Take A Pause session recorded on 15 June 2025, the TAP community dwelled in open awareness without agenda. We closed the practice by tuning in to a poem by
.Meditation Begins: 09:07
Reading Begins: 26:21
Meditation Duration: 17 minutes
To Be Mindful Is To Be Wakeful
When I first started meditating, I would drift off almost as soon as I sat down and closed by eyes.
Witnessing the Mind
When we first sit down to meditate, we often discover just how unruly the mind can be.
