[webwanderings]

The mindfulness, which I called meditation below, is sort of a way to say that you - any average individual - can get on the path of blissfulness without waiting for, or waiting to start the path of meditation (of your example).

It really all boils down to each individual and their capacity of how they wish to learn.

Some people can easily start the meditation (of any type beginning with what the author describe in the source, of breathing exercises) to mantra meditation to anything else. However, if the above methods does not come easily to you, you can still meditate by being in here-now (what you describe as mindfulness).

The point is, that we don't have to be dogmatic about meditation and everyone can easily and equally get on the path of bliss and self-improvement in all walks of life.

For far too long, the traditional culture has sort of relegated the arts and artists to the lower pole of meaningful life. What is being suggested here is that either you can plainly observe the sun rising, or you can take pride in your singing or painting....all of these artistic self-expressions give you containment which leads to blissfulness...something an average meditator of various type would achieve by sitting idle or concentrating as their practice.

The more one stays in here-now, the more the mind sheds the distractions, the more there is bliss.