This is a common saying and it suggests that duality is fundamental. We don’t hear, ‘You can’t have it all 17 ways.’ The saying is, ‘You can’t have it both ways,’ 17 (or 23,000 or infinity) ultimately breaks down to 2. 2 is fundamental. Because it represents choice. 1 is fundamental because it represents existence. …
If : mindfulness is observing your thoughts, and by observing your thoughts you remove the attachments to that thought; Then : a mindful person experiences thoughts as neither good nor bad. Which means: whenever a mindful person wants to experience ‘Good,’ he or she just has to choose to attach it to a thought.
The important part here is not the, ‘What others think of you’ part. The important part here is, ‘Don’t worry.’ And because we forget that, we get confused about what might be a good thing to do with what other people think about us. Don’t worry about other people think about you! OK. My co-worker …