mindfulness

In the 14 precepts for Thich Nhath Hanh's community the first goes: Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth. Does he mean that we should skip Buddhism? probably not. But we cannot be sure of anything Buddha said, he didn't write anything down. other did, all a long time afterwards. Maybe it's right maybe not, maybe some of it are right. Maybe the first writings are the more accurate As the four Noble truth and such. But I'm sure T N H is hanging n to mindfulness, i guess because it works for him. For me its a great help too -  but its not a miracle cure. You have to combine with another things. As exercise. I play a lot of table tennis with not mindfulness trained bur nice people. There I can use mindfulness to try to be concentrated. But its all about to win too. And it would be foolish not to to try to do it, that's import