Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Noticing. He starts with a story about an extraordinarily ordinary person and how practical noticing is.
Be mindful, be attentive; if you make mistakes, it’s okay.
Gil tells a story about his Zen teacher, his first meeting with him, and how it became a pivotal point in his own path to becoming a Zen teacher. He describes this man as extraordinarily ordinary, completely at ease and just being there.
He explains how this noticing is a special part of awareness and mindfulness between people. Either you notice others or people notice you. Especially when you are a sort of public figure, you ought to behave in a way that, because people notice you, you notice your own shortcomings. In Buddhism, the practice is like how you are representing the Buddha and how the Buddha projects his presence.
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