#189 Choices every moment

     What we choose to do, each moment, is our best shot at survival, avoidance of suffering, and grabbing a bit of happiness. The choice is not necessarily wise ie well-reasoned with respect to our own and everyone else's long-term best interests, but it's the best we can come up with at the time.
     Mindfulness meditation helps make these moment-by-moment choices increasingly more conscious and wiser. By seeing things more clearly, we naturally act more appropriately. This is an ongoing process - approximating ever more closely the ideal of decreasing suffering and doing the least harm in the process.

Gaspereau Vineyards, Nova Scotia, September 2012