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safety behaviours

missnikkimissnikki
edited February 2011 in Buddhism Basics
I forgot my mala beads and a buddha nec klace I always wear, at home today. I feel like I'm missing something. My therapist calls objects like this a "safety behaviour" because wearing them makes me feel somehow calmer or "safe". Does anyone else feel this way about their mala beads, or any other object or something in their life?

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  • CloudCloud Veteran
    edited February 2011
    Makes sense; ever hear of a "security blanket"? In the end we have to find safety (refuge) in the mind of knowing itself. The bodhi mind.
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    edited February 2011
    Nothing wrong with security blankets. Just use them until their necessity diminishes...beads, chants, bells, robes, incense, temples ... that sort of stuff.

    Not too long ago, I found myself sitting down for meditation without my rakusu ... a thing I often ware when sitting. Then I realized my sitting really didn't need the rakusu, so I went to work without it.
  • DazzleDazzle
    edited February 2011
    I used to always wear a wrist mala or a longer mala and a Buddha necklace under my clothes even when I went to work - but not now.
    I realised one day that they were just comforters which I didn't actually need any more. :)
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