Forgetfulness vs Mindfulness
Notes from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDXcIaUKHDU
Forgetfulness Mindfulness
are opposites
get lost in the past be in the present
get lost in the future
possessed by anger, hatred, fear
I+O
1st exercise
breathing In: I know I'm breathing in
breathing Out: I know I'm breathing out
I+O
2nd exercise Flower fresh
breathing In: I see myself as a flower
breathing Out: I fell fresh
happiness freshness
I+O
3nd exercise Mountain solid
breathing Out: I fell solid
I+O
4nd exercise High altitude lake
breathing Out: I fell solid
I+O
5nd exercise Space
breathing Out: I fell free
The present moment is made from the past. The present is made of the past. We can fix the past in the present. Because the past is still there in the present moment.
By changing the present we can change the past.
Gilt is an obstacle.
Future will be made by the present moment. The present is the substance with with the future will be made.
Hope is an obstacle.
To be awake to be aware is what is going on in your body in your feeling in your preceptions in your mental formations and in the work around.
You are aware that the trees are beautiful, that is awareness.
You are aware that many trees are cut down . That is awareness.
Awareness of the good and the not so good.
Water the seed of your happiness, joy.
The seeds of mindfulness.
Our Consciousness has a
Lower part: Store Consciousness
Upper part: Mind, Consciousness
Lower part: Store Consciousness , Alaya-Vijñāṇa, ālayavijñāna
Contains all seeds of happiness, seed of you, seed of enlightenment, seeds of anger seed of fear, all kind of seeds of good and bad,
When one seed is watered that seed can grow more strongly. It will manifest itself in the upper level of conspicuousness.
Including the seed of mindfulness.
Upper part: Mind, mano vijnaya
Refrain from of watering of the seeds of unhappiness, concentrate to water the seeds of joy, happiness, and mindfulness. This seed of mindfulness is buried under many layers of afflictions, is begins to manifest.
46-47
Samatha. Stopping forgetfulness
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