A key component of mindfulness is the practice of bringing our awareness into the mundane, so that the stuff of everyday experience which lies between the extremes, becomes transformed by the quality of our attention. When we pause and look deeply enough to notice, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
The video below by Dietrich Ludwig truly captures this. It is well worth 7 minutes of your time.
Thank you very much for posting this video James.
Glad you enjoyed it Charlie, I’ve watched it several times now and it still speaks to me from a mindfulness perspective. One of the practices that is taught in the 8 week class concerns bringing your attention to a routine activity in your daily life and making a deliberate effort to bring awareness to that activity whenever you do it on a daily basis. This video reminds me of that process, in the sense that there is a richness and potential available in all our experience, if we choose to attend to it and see it with a ‘beginners mind’. Sadly this is not always our reality, because much of the time our mind is elsewhere.