Remember the concept of paying for something before you could have it? An example is when you used to put a coin in a slot and get electricity. I thought about this as my battery lamp was losing juice. I personally don't remember the coin slot thing, but I've read about it.
It brings to mind an image of immigrants, living in city rooming houses and tenements; working in mills. Having a thin coin to their names. How badly did they want, or need, that few minutes of electricity to put that coin into the slot?
That would be one big example of mindfulness. That is how I am trying to live my life now.
When my batteries run too low to see I am mindful of it. I can't see to read or write. In this world of use first, pay later, we have learned to squander our resources. Is it progress to go in debt; personally or nationally? To kill things off we can't replace? Our spirits get killed off as well as our trees.
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