Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
Sep 24, 2026 · 19 min · 3 segments
Quote from Gil Fronsdal: *Where in my life do I postpone kindness until non-wellbeing goes away— and what shifts when I practice wellbeing that includes non-wellbeing?* *A helpful way to practice…
another writer says the pain and the boredom of it no less than the gladness and joy this too belongs That part of the standard way we tend to relate to the word mindfulness is getting it together, doing it right, just do it, as the Nike ad says.
That part of the cultural misunderstanding of what this practice is falls apart in this understanding of allowing all this to belongs.
What's any part of your experience in this moment right now And something on the inside wants to reject, but not this.
But not this messiness, but not this hurt, but not this distraction, but not this monkey mind.
But not this pain in the body, pain in the heart.
but not this rabbit hole of fantasy.
This too belongs.
What's this in this moment right now for you? What's the non-well-being that's so often relegated to outside of the circle.
space for it all.
And that the practice in this light becomes a willingness to allow.
Allow this too to be heard.
Notice wherever the mind heart system wants to collapse in to either getting swept away by this to down the rabbit hole lost in the monkey mind or actively put up a barrier of resistance willpower against a part of your own being in this third possibility, the middle way.
Not swept, not resisted, but opened with strong heart, wise mind.
A space that can listen and learn.
more about what it means to be human in the midst of all of these conditions.
another writer says the pain and the boredom of it no less than the gladness and joy this too belongs That part of the standard way we tend to relate to the word mindfulness is getting it together, doing it right, just do it, as the Nike ad says.
That part of the cultural misunderstanding of what this practice is falls apart in this understanding of allowing all this to belongs.
What's any part of your experience in this moment right now And something on the inside wants to reject, but not this.
But not this messiness, but not this hurt, but not this distraction, but not this monkey mind.
But not this pain in the body, pain in the heart.
but not this rabbit hole of fantasy.
This too belongs.
What's this in this moment right now for you? What's the non-well-being that's so often relegated to outside of the circle.
space for it all.
And that the practice in this light becomes a willingness to allow.
Allow this too to be heard.
Notice wherever the mind heart system wants to collapse in to either getting swept away by this to down the rabbit hole lost in the monkey mind or actively put up a barrier of resistance willpower against a part of your own being in this third possibility, the middle way.
Not swept, not resisted, but opened with strong heart, wise mind.
A space that can listen and learn.
more about what it means to be human in the midst of all of these conditions.
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