Tom Wootton, PsychCentral: The part of our minds that most people identify with is the part that silently talks to us with a running commentary. We listen to it all day long. Let’s call it “The Talker.”
“The Talker” prefers pleasure over pain, happiness over sadness, winning over losing, health over sickness, and any of the other judgments that help us navigate our lives. Although it plays a critical role that we cannot live without, “The Talker” is stuck in the duality that makes us judge one thing better than another. It does not allow us to experience the world without judgment.
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Mindfulness, itself is not supposed to lead to happiness. It is the understanding of conditions, compassion for self and others, understanding of interdependence and non attachment that help that. One cannot take an ingredient of a cake and call it a cake, yet.