Meditation and Mindfulness Question: Are deep states of meditation more valuable than an ongoing state of Mindfulness? A wonderful question that provokes another: by what metric could we possibly compute such values? Surely ongoing awareness of the workings of consciousness -- the "mindfulness" so often spoken of by and since Buddha -- is the state in which bodhisattva receives the temporal world and thus incalculably "valuable." Unitary experience, the pure meditative state, occurs spontaneously, mysteriously, and wondrously in bodhisattva-- its value is that of divine reassurance and receiving of the direct behest of love. Perhaps it can be said that while the meditative state is the unity of vessel and source, it is the ongoing clarity of what Buddha called "mindfulness" that maintains the vessel's receptivity to meditation and allows bodhisattva to be "in this world but not of it." Seeing as both are intrinsic to bodhisattva, is there really any question of one being more "valuable" than the other?