Avoiding and chasing don't bring lasting happiness - so when can I be happy?
Hoping for future happiness is escaping from the present - an assumption that what we have right now can't be "it."
But the present moment is real and workable, while the future is uncertain (on many levels).
Isn't this when we live? Can we take a rest from being chased and chasing? Mindfulness is all about working more consciously and realistically with the present moment.
We start to release our tendencies to avoid and chase by becoming aware of these tendencies. At first we notice that we just did it again. Later we notice that we're doing it again. Then that we're about to do it, so we don't. And eventually, we notice that we have the tendency, but it no longer causes us to act in the old way. This is how, with mindfulness practice, awareness starts to free us from habits that no longer benefit us.
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