Last week, we talked about what a quiet mind is.

And to experience a quiet mind is a peaceful, yep,

a blissful place to rest our awareness, to experience, to be in. It is quite enjoyable.

That is the state of being we intend to experience when we sit down to meditate.

It will take practice to get there, but then consistently we will be able to once we have learned the skill.

But to expect to experience this type of bliss all day, every day, once we become skilled in

meditation, would lead to, dare I say, a boring, even a stagnant life

void of growth on discovery.

This is not to say we want to live a life that involves constant chaos.

Absolutely not.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

But what we need to acknowledge is that we cannot control everything

in our everydays and that will be the case every day no matter how many or how few people or

activities are happening around us our life becomes more enriched and our mindfulness skills become further strengthened

when we observe these unwanted moments and instead of scoffing at them or sighing in frustration,

we put our skills into practice. Andy Puddycombe describes our decision to embrace the

latter choice, to put our skills to practice, as seeing these events as compost. If we use them

correctly, they can help us grow. So when we shift our perspective of moments in which our mind races,

or maybe our mind becomes so volatile and just we're really upset about something and we don't

like the feelings that we're feeling for whatever, whatever those feelings might be,

these are not moments to become mad at ourself thinking our mind is not in our control.

Just the simple fact that you are aware that you are having that emotion, that you're in a state

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