What I do matters so much less than how I do it.
With all my might, with an exhausted heart, if I throw myself into the noblest of activities,
If I go through it front-end, brutally, without listening to what it has to teach me,
Who can this serve?
If the light step, the mindful movement, underlies the most trivial of actions,
through it, I will be able to hear what the wisest of the worlds will have to say.
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A sort of thought experiment…
One may learn, also, by doing most mindfully an act of abject cruelty. Does the manner still matter more than the act itself?
Perhaps the manner will cause the damage to the soul to be the more extensive…?
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I thought about this recently, as a thought experiment,
And remembered that any experience of experimenting with thoughts was a dead-end.
Seriously : If mindfulness was indeed applied, there would be no act of cruelty possible.
Any arising of cruelty reveals an absence of mindfulness.
I don’t know about you, but I’m quite satisfied the answer I’m reading here above.
Thank you for voicing the question that had expressed itself in my mind in a less articulated way.
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Hmm. I agree the difference, but am to be persuaded that you are not rather idealistic on this one.
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You are welcome, but I suspect your view of human nature is a little more forgiving than mine. A cruel mind can be mindfully cruel, I rather suspect.
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In such a case, mindful is not mindful.
Attention vs. Mindfulness.
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