[Avodah] Mindfulness and Being Present in the Moment

[Micha Berger]

On a tangent...

On Thu, November 15, 2007 11:48 am, Yonatan Kaganoff wrote:
:   One could use the word "Kavvanah" for Mindfulness, but,
: traditionally, in Kabbalistic-ethical and other literature, being
: mindful was always about being aware of God, Sefirot, or Metaphysics
: and not in the sense of being fully aware of ones surroundings or
: being fully present in a conversation with others.  In fact there
: are famous passages in the writings of Rambam zt"l and the Baal Shem
: Tov zy"a that explicitly encourage people to be thinking of God or
: the Higher Realms when talking to other people.

Shevisi Hashem lenegdi tamid.

The idea is pretty fundamental, not just to the couple of sources cited.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha