If you want to be mindful, you have to completely focus on the task at hand by doing it perfectly. How do you perfect your actions?

You must become the thing you seek to perfect. In Rama- Dr. Frederick Lenz’ book Surfing the Himalayas, he describes the principles of perfect action through the words of his teacher, Master Fwap. While he uses snowboarding as the example of the action to perfect, he makes it clear that the principles apply to any action. “If you can perfect any one thing that you do, then you will experience and know what perfect living is, in that particular action. Once you have accomplished the perfection of one particular action, it will then be relatively easy for you to transfer that knowledge to some other actions you perform, and eventually you will be able to perfect everything you do.”

He goes on to say “to do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all. Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform”.

Most people think their way through life rather than experience things directly.

The analogy is “you are the board”. This means that you should not create an artificial separation between yourself and the action you are performing. You are everything, so you are also the action you perform. The trick is to merge your mind with the action. The energy of the action and you become one.