Mindfulness is about maintaining a calm, non-judging awareness, allowing thoughts, feelings, and sensations to come and go without getting entangled in them.

‘It is more at the contemplative level of reception, of listening or of impregnation than of the looking-for in a predetermined way. It seems to arise from a modality which is more passive than cognition, even if we are well aware that that relative passivity is woven into the background by our categorical filters, whose permanent activity is hard to suspend. In this sense, our description of the reflective act is not about forcing a passive, mechanical reflection. The mirror which represents the person who operates the reflectivity is anything but than neutral. What is in play is to give oneself the possibility of not immediately in-forming reality by a form of thought through a language which is already available, thereby establishing a relative and provisional zone of silence from which to set off with a new relation to the reality of the lived.’

                                      The Gesture of Awareness. An account of its structural dynamics ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt    Natalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela, Pierre Vermersch

                                                 M.Velmans (Ed.),Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness.                                                                Benjamin Publishers, Amsterdam, 1999

Claus Otto Scharmer (2000):  Presencing: Learning From the Future As It Emerges,              MIT Sloan School of Management, OSG, October 20^th, 2000