Lucille Ball On Mindfulness
‘To me, God is a hill, a cloud, a tree, a Christmas eve on top of a high bridge, my grandmother Hunt’s backyard during a rainstorm. That backyard is where I sensed the presence of God. Every nook was utilised, beautifully arranged with flowers and rocks, young bushes and fruit trees. The seasons seemed holy—an incense of hyacinths each spring; oak golds and purples in autumn; a snow-covered stillness in winter with the hieroglyphic tracks of birds, rabbits, cats, and dogs in the drifts.
‘Is it possible for a backyard to be a church for a child? It was for me—it was my sanctuary.’
That’s
pantheism, some will say, to which I say, ‘So what? Pantheism makes more sense than traditional theism.’ Actually, it’s not pantheism at all but a mindful appreciation of the innate sacredness and holiness of the eternal now—and that’s something very beautiful indeed.Mindfulness is the presence—note that word presence—of bare attention to, and choiceless awareness of, the action(be it internal or external) of the presentmoment from one moment to the next. Presencerefers to both physical and psychological presence—your presence, that is. Insofar as your psychological presence is concerned, we are talking about a curious, deliberate, intentional, and reflexive awareness of what is, but in an ‘un-self-conscious’ frame of mind such that you are and remain ever open to whatever happens.
Your moment-to-moment experience of the action of life as it continually unfolds from one moment to the next—when ‘accompanied’ by your simultaneousand instantaneous mindful physical and psychological presence of that action—is your ‘church,’ your ‘sanctuary.’ You see, worship has everything to do with ‘worthiness’ or ‘worth-ship,’ that is, ascribing worth to that which is worthy of the ascription, and very little to do with God or gods in the traditional, ‘church’ sense. Worship is a mindset that shows reverent love for the sacredness of the eternal now—and what could be more sacred or divine than that?
Miss Ball was right to use the words ‘church’ and ‘sanctuary’ to refer to her childhood experiences and her later memories of the events in question. Hers was, in her own words, ‘an everyday religon that works for me.’ Although she was a close friend and ‘disciple’ of Dr Norman Vincent Peale and his spiritual philosophy, she was not into organized religion or dogma, didn’t believe in an afterlife, and was agnostic on most things ‘religious,’ but there is no doubt that she was very, very spiritual—and she understood what mindfulness is all about.
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Source: http://ianellis-jones.blogspot.com/2013/10/lucille-ball-on-mindfulness.html
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