Shared by Jing
It provides the ability to question the accuracy of the perception provide the ability to respond to the feeling/emotion rather than react. It helps me to understand the truth, sometimes we display good qualities, sometimes bad. Sometimes the output looks like success, sometimes failure. But we are not defined by these qualities or behaviors.
Mindfulness helped me to surface that wisdom to pull me out of the “dark valley” I thought of at that moment. I hope to keep practicing to live as the oneness of mind and body.
Hakone Zendo 