In Buddhism there is a concept of mindful activity. But what actually is mindfulness? How does it differ from mindless activity?
Please help me to understand that: I've googled it a lot, but failed to gain insight into it.
I hope that some concrete examples from daily life might be the best way to explain it.
I am really bad at understanding theory, so if you can please give examples is daily life: for example, is watching a movie categorized as mindless or mindful? How to make it a mindful activity?
EDIT: After receiving various kind help, I gain more insight into mindfulness. There are 4 types of mindfulness of phenomenon of the living:
- the awareness of existence of the phenomenon of body
- the awareness of existence of the phenomenon of feeling. such as pleasant, unpleasant, neutral feeling that arise
- the awareness of existence of phenomenon of mind
- the awareness of existence of phenomenon of mental quality according to buddha teaching. (i have not fully grasp of the last part)
Do not think that one of those four as the ultimate awareness. All of those awareness make whole awareness.
mindlessness is like being a robot that fully functional. mindfulness is like being a fully functional robot that gain awareness of itself. please excuse me with the example