Selective Poor Memory

In our interpersonal interactions, some things are worth remembering while other things are best forgotten. Wisdom is knowing the difference. In a sense, wisdom is having a selective poor memory. In one of the Buddhist Sutras it is said:

"Some people are like letters carved in rock; they are easily angered and they keep their angry thoughts for a long time. Some people are like letters written in sand; they give way to anger also, but the angry thoughts quickly pass away. Some people are like letters written on water; they let verbal abuse pass them by and no disturbing thoughts are retained."

**Rev. Koyo Kubose, from the book "BRIGHT DAWN: Discovering Your Everyday Spirituality."

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Death.

Dying being my only fear,
I trained my mind in the innate state beyond death
And recognized the essential meaning,
The basic nature of self-liberated samsara.

Unsupported and naked inner awareness,
Discursiveness cleared, the confidence of the view----
I have resolved this to be luminous emptiness.
Now birth and death no longer intimidate me.

**MILAREPA

Conceptual Mind

All your thinking is conceptual mind,
So give up the doings of this mind and rest.
And as "rest" is also just a word,
Give up holding on to words and let be.

***Songtsen Gampo, The First Dharma King of Tibet