Neither rejecting or pursuing the momentum, there is just a mere
awareness of the momentum and yet you are not affected by it. This
is mindfulness. Actually mindfulness can become a habit and this is
important. If you have the habit of mindfulness, you will
automatically not dwell too deeply into the content of your
thoughts, you will be able to let go as it arises. You will not
take your 'stories' too seriously, and just watch them as they
arise and liberates by themselves. Letting go of content is
important for developing calmness as well.
About this habit of Mindfulness, the Mindfulness chapter
says:
Repeated practice in meditation
establishes this function as a mental habit which then carries over
into the rest of your life. A serious meditator pays bare attention
to occurrences all the time, day in, day out, whether formally
sitting in meditation or not. This is a very lofty ideal towards
which those who meditate may be working for a period of years or
even decades. Our habit of getting stuck in thought is years old,
and that habit will hang on in the most tenacious manner. The only
way out is to be equally persistent in the cultivation of constant
Mindfulness. When Mindfulness is present, you will notice when you
become stuck in your thought patterns. It is that very noticing
which allows you to back out of the thought process and free
yourself from it. Mindfulness then returns your attention to its
proper focus. If you are meditating at that moment, then your focus
will be the formal object of meditation. If your are not in formal
meditation, it will be just a pure application of bare attention
itself, just a pure noticing of whatever comes up without getting
involved--"Ah, this comes up...and now this, and now this... and
now this".
So I didn't say we do not need to meditate. Meditation helps in
gaining tranquil calmness and insights. (Although you can be
mindful even when typing here on sgForums as well. The keyboard
sounds 
)
