Sir Anthony suggests that we should recognise that we’ve spent a lot of our lives Mindful. He explains that it is just a natural state of being. He talks about athletes being Mindful when they perform. He also talks about Mindfulness being giving up the past and the future and living in the present. Sir Anthony suggests Apps or groups are ways of learning and he himself joined a group 40 years ago.
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I recognise that you will have spent a large part of your life mindful. I think it's difficult for a baby not to be mindful, difficult for a cat not to be mindful. Mindfulness is not a device for sale from India or from some expensive headspace app. It is just a natural state of being. Athletes practice it and athletes will not be as successful sports people or musicians if they're not in the moment. So it's simply, I mean, mindfulness is both being in the moment, but it's also what we talk about as a description of how we get to that state of present-mindedness. And so I think one begins to do it recognising that we're often mindful without perhaps being aware of it, that maybe people lose their mindfulness the older they get, and the more distracted and angry and confused and judgmental they become. It's a journey into simplicity. As T.S. Eliot said, it's a journey into simplicity costing not less than everything. And the everything, it's about giving up, it's about giving up movement and finding stillness. It's about giving up the present and the future and sorry, the past and the future. I think I wasn't mindful of that and finding the present. So it can be helpful to have an app to join a group. I joined a group 40 plus years ago, very helpful, called the School of Meditation. Yeah, I mean, there are lots of good people and good systems around.
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