that if it's possible to actually

practice paying attention and systematic ways

that changed the way the brain is wired

changes the way the brain functions, changes

structure, very structure of the brain, in ways that enhance well-being

and clarity and multiple intelligences

so this is a very, very exciting time

where science in meditation coming together

because with discovering that the human organism

is really capable profound the technical word is called

plasticity, what the brain is an organ that changes in relationship to experience

and actually the chromosomes are changing always in relationship to

experience, and so

meditation even seems to be able to drive changes in which

genes in our chromosomes are being upregulated, in which genes being

down-regulated, which means we have a lot more freedom

to transform our organism, and our life experience and

and attain some degree profound

well-being and satisfaction than what we ever thought, that

scientifically amazing and

it's also seems to be the case

mindfulness is a way to live your life if it really mattered

and that involves being in the present moment

with open heart presence and kindness

with yourself, well, all of us are very busy

so how do we bring mindfulness into our life

the way to do it, is anyway we can feel right to us

so there's no one right way to do this but

a certain ways in which we cultivate awareness

can be very valuable, and a one thing that we might

bring our awareness to is the body, and just the sense of

remembering to feel us

our lives unfolding in the body as opposed to

only in our head, so that can be done in many different ways

in a sense of the body as a whole

walking, sitting, eating, moving

or just being in touch with the breath, one's own breath, and the feeling of the

breath, coming in

into the body, the feeling of the breath, leaving the body

but it's important to remember, it's not about the

breathing, it's not some breathing exercise or something special

you supposed to be doing

it's recognizing that is very special, that you're breathing at all

if you're not breathing, you're dead, so it could be

where breathing and how special this is

and feel the energy of it, as if, in this moment, this is my life

and it's not waiting for the weekend to have my life

waiting, when I finish something project, but every moment is my life, then

even in very stressful situations, you can move

into the actuality the situation, and find ways to

move with it, and regulate your own

reactivity to it, so that in some very, very deep way

you are not running away, you are not pushing through anything

but allowing things to and for

all that they do, that's the hardest creativity and

that way we get the most work done with the least destruction

and the least effort, it's an art form and it takes a while to learn

it's not something where

you just hear me say this on the web, and the next thing I know you'll be mindful

that for the rest my life, its

one of the most difficult things in the world, if not the most difficult thing

in the world for us human beings to do, to be present in our own lives

and to be kind unless judgmental on ourselves

that's why it's worth doing, with practicing

but it's not doing really, and all said and done

it's a way of being, and actually way of being

awake and yourself, in the present moment which

is the only moment where ever actually live in

tends to get obliterated

really squeeze to the point where we not in the present moment

always in the past, always in the future

and that's a prescription for unhappiness

happiness is in some other time, when, you know, at pot of gold at the end of

the rainbow, it's right now

in the midst of whatever's happening

and this is an art form, so it does take some time

it does involve some discipline

but I would throw out, well, what else is there to do

because if you're missing your entire life, whatever moment you decide, it's

time to reconnect with your life, that moment

guess when that will be, will be now, again, you look at your watch, oh my god

it's now again, so we only have moments in the now

why not, why not make the most use them

what is the most important thing that I've learned over the years about

mindfulness

I don't know, that it's a mystery

that it's a gift, that

we are geniuses, we're

miraculous beings, and that we ignore most about beauty

and drive us those crazy over all these things, that are really not important

so we've driven by the urgent, miss the important

and then wind up a lot of the time being happen

and then look elsewhere for the solution, this is a prescription for

disaster, and when I see people coming to mindfulness

our medical patients for instance, by the hundreds, by

thousands, by the tens of thousands, and turning their lives around, and having

many of them medical symptoms

all the way, and coming to live their lives more fully

its unbelievably gratifying work, so this work is moving into medicine, is working

moving into psychology, is moving into psychiatry, is moving into education

into the law and into government, and

that itself is, I think, very good sign for Humanity

I'll say one last thing, I guess, which is that

we call our species, Homo sapiens, sapiens

in latin, the species that knows, knows that

knows, the species that is aware, and aware that is aware

well, so far, I don't think we've really lived up to that name as a species

now with ecological a

through crisis that we are in

and with all the other crises that the human mind is created for

itself, and for the planet, maybe it is time

for us to wake up, to what that name is actually pointing to

and fully embody ourselves in that way

as species that understands our capacity for awareness

and then balances thought-out in a way that has profound

and ultimately when all is said and done

I call that love

Verbatim :Onishi Keisuke 英文聽打：大西啟介