\n– <\/i>to grow or to make grow<\/p>\n
—<\/span>‘Am’ and ‘is’ evolved from the same root as The late psychologist Julian Jayne Of course this is VERY interesting For mindfulness as an experiential
\nthe Sanskrit asmi – <\/i>to breathe<\/p>\n
\nsaid, It is something of a lovely surprise that the irregular conjugation of
\nour most nondescript verb is thus a record of a time when man had no
\nindependent word for ‘existence’ and could only say that something ‘grows’ or
\nthat it ‘breathes.'”<\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbecause breathing is central to the practice of mindfulness and we can think
\nabout mindfulness as a practice of being – shifting us from human doings to
\nhuman beings.<\/p>\n
\nconcept we can only understand it by referring to things we already know. The
\nmind, for, instance can only be understood with metaphors and is powerfully
\nshaped by them. Understanding the self is also relies on metaphor, and I would
\ngo a step further and say that what we consider to be the self IS a metaphor.
\nThat was the Buddha’s central message: the self is a metaphor.<\/p>\n