Okay, so the nature of mindfulness, right mindfulness is the art of keeping your mind whole. I forgot to tell you this. Well, this is the other thing is happening. Holy crap. So much is happening. Right now. So just last week, I got I finally got my two book contract. I'm so excited about it. But here check this out. This is hysterical. I have to throw this in. So here's here's the story behind these two books, right? So totally forgot about this. This is kind of big news. It's hard to get a one book contract now little on two books. That's not easy. So I'm really really pleased about that. But here's so I did the pitch to the publisher. We had a zoom thing everything. And they were really into it. And so I was ah, this is awesome. This is great. So here's here's what how these two books came about. So I was halfway through last last December. Not December 21. But December of 20. I was halfway through this one book. And I realized one morning I said, Hey, wait, I gotta write. I have to write a prequel. I have to write a book to situate this particular book. So I dropped that book. And I spent a better part of last year writing this is pretty cool. But okay on mindfulness, the okay on mindfulness workbook, exploring the wonders of the mind. And so I wrote that whole bloody book pretty quickly because materials pretty familiar to me. And and then so I figured I had that book two pitches, a completed manuscript, and a draft of the second one and so so here's the kicker, right? So they come back and they go, yeah, we'll give you a two book deal. But we want the second book first. And I was like, what I mean, the whole reason I stopped to write the second book was to situate the first book. And so now a little bit of panic on this one, but I think I can do it. On the book that's done. I have to put that on ice. That's not the second book and I have to scramble to finish the first book. I think I thought I had a year and a half to finish it. Now. I have to finish it by July. So anyway, the good news came with a little asterisk. It's called stress deadlines. But in order to get the two book contract, I kind of had to do it, which is fine, puts a little bit of healthy pressure on me. But anyway, that's kind of cool. I'm excited about it. So the the the second book, which is now the first book, is a whole book on the reverse medications, practice of open awareness in the practices that situate this, I think this is an important book and I think they wanted it because it's completely applicable for dealing with everything that's happening right now in the world. All the hardship, the pain, all the crap. These meditations are specifically designed to work with those and that's why they said I you know, let's get this out there. Right now, so I should Okay, so anyway, yeah, I wanted to share that with you, your first people. I'm sharing it with good news for me anyway. And of course, it's all about me. So what's good? Okay, so here we go. Mindfulness is the art of keeping your mind on the present moment. Instead in contrast to mindlessness, which is when your mind drifts away from what's happening, we all know this right? Mindfulness is virtually synonymous with distraction and mindfulness mindless, mindless ness is virtually synonymous with distraction. The mindfulness is a synonym for non distraction the three stages Yeah, this is from my main teacher katg or Khenpo tsultrim. Capoeira, he describes three forms of mindfulness. This is really helpful to me. The first is deliberate or effortful mindfulness with practice law, this level matures into effortless mindfulness. And then effortless mindfulness has two aspects exoteric outer esoteric inner, and the exoteric level, mindfulness gets easier and eventually effortless. You find yourself being more and more present. The esoteric aspect is that effortless mindfulness is associated with awareness of the true nature of mind. We'll see why this is important shortly. With sustained practice, effortless mindfulness matures into spontaneous mindfulness and you can move my I have a new computer and it has a new keyboard that is on a cable on a battery. And if I lean against it, like I'm prone to do, it'll shut me out. There we go. With sustained effort, practice, effortless mindfulness matures into spontaneous mindfulness. Some of you may have already noticed this, it just happens. More spontaneously, right? There's the fruition a level on the exoteric level. This is when you're mindful all the time, you're never distracted. On the esoteric level, this quality of mindfulness is never distracted from the true nature of mind. We start with effortful mindfulness, which is a relatively coarse level of mindfulness that dissolves as we fall asleep. They also dissolves when we die, but it's the starting point. We start with a more entry catchment, the gross entry level practice with practice is level refines into the effortless and then spontaneous stages which do not dissolve that's no small thing.