It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding, without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about your thinking itself,
which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns often so strong in us which are narrow, inaccurate, self involved, habitual to the point of being imprisoning, and also just plain wrong.
The process of thinking can be viewed as a waterfall, a continual cascading of thought.
In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or a depression in the rock behind the waterfall.
We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.
~ Jon Kabat Zinn ~
in Wherever you go, there you are.
So much for the parable about getting in the river and going with the flow. There could be a waterfall just ahead, sit on the bank and observe the water flowing by.
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