I enjoyed reading a very interesting interpretation of Samma-Sati:
Even brief practice with mindfulness makes it abundantly clear that the mind is heavily controlled by automatic reactions, catapulting us from one upset to the next. We spend much of our time living in brain-made stories and relatively little in the simple embodied experience of the present moment. Examining our lives with deepening levels of mindfulness, we can begin to develop a framework for relating to this reactive mind in a way that is less identified with what we think and feel. This makes it possible for us to let experience pass through and around us with less resistance and with more equanimity.As we do this practice, it also becomes more and more apparenthow our minds automatically and continually tend to interpret everything that happens in terms of Me. Mindfulness practice highlights in a very immediate, non-conceptual way that the “Me-story” (Packer, 2002) is the thematic focus of everything that makes me happy and unhappy: I feel good when the Me-story is enhanced and bad when it is punctured or deflated.
In the open, spacious awareness of meditation, we begin to develop a new sense of our connection to a wholeness of life that is not based in the separation between Self and Other. As the mind quiets, we get glimpses of the truth that personal consciousness is like waves forming on a large ocean of awareness. Just as waves are not separate from the ocean itself, “I” am not separate from the world. Such “non-dual awareness”, as it is called, engages the possibility of Being without quite so much attachment to Me and the representations of Me that I am identified with.
Don't cry, don't regret and don't blame
Weak find the whip, willing find freedom
Towards the sun, carry your name
In warm hands you are given
Ask the wind for the way
Uncertainty's gone, your path will unravel
Accept all as it is and do not blame
God or the Devil
~Born to Live - Mavrik~