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I really need some assistance with this..

BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
edited July 2011 in General Banter
Lately I have been writing down quotes, and words, sayings to live by. It's like I live by them for the time being, then it fades away when I forget or get distracted, I am so caught up in all this time I've had lately I don't even know what to think anymore.

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  • DhammaDhatuDhammaDhatu Veteran
    to remember is called 'mindfulness'. that is why in Buddhism, mindfulness is so important

    regards :)
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    @girllikesam -- The desire to get a handle on Buddhism, to make it our own, to gain control, and to prove to ourselves that this interest isn't just some lunatic fantasy can be pretty strong at first. Much of our past training centers on learning more and more and more and more, so we stuff our Buddhist suitcases fuller and fuller and fuller ... until there just isn't any room left and all that 'wisdom' starts to tumble out or be forgotten.

    It's all OK because if there is some willingness to engage in a determined and constant practice -- meditation, for example -- then the need to control and 'understand' and find meaning and believe falls away a bit at a time. No need to know what you already know, right?

    Don't worry too much. Just keep up your good, constant practice.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    mindfulness is NOT remembering. If you forget then that is mindfulness of forgetting. If you drop a glass and it breaks then that is mindfulness of dropping glass. CHINK
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