Recollection
Constant self-remembering (smṛti, स्मृति) leads to samadhi (समाधि).
Tag: understanding
Memento mori VI
The ultimate meditation: If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that—at a time not too distant—each one of us will simply cease to be. It won’t be like going into darkness forever, for there will be neither darkness, nor time, nor sense of futility, nor anyone […]
Maturity II
How to be a wise child: [R]eturn to that naked awareness, that vision unclouded by commentary, which we enjoyed as babies in the days when we saw no difference between knower and known, deed and happening. This time, however, we are babies reborn–babies who remember all the rules and tricks of human games and can […]
Memento mori V
You have everything. Compare:
Memento mori IV
Today is a good day to die. Compare:
Memento mori III: Dewdrops – Brief poems by Kobayashi Issa
Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶, 1763 – 1828) was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals. He was born in 1763 with the name Kobayashi Yatarô to a farmer and his wife in the village of Kashiwabara, a village of approximately one hundred houses in the highlands of the province of Shinano, close […]
Memento mori II
Practice deathbed meditation thusly: “Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.” “So is all conditioned existence to be seen.” https://diamond-sutra.com/read-the-diamond-sutra-here/diamond-sutra-chapter-32/
Memento mori I
The first installment in a recurring series of meditations on death. Compare: Memento Mori — (Latin: remember you will die)–is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” https://dailystoic.com/what-is-memento-mori/
International Self-Care Day – ISF
This day prompts one to reflect, meditate, and act. Still, answer this question first: Who is the I that cares for me? https://isfglobal.org/international-self-care-day/
Jazzy life
Living, a structured improvisation. Take Miles’s advice! https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6282f1dc01e39e00070b9c04?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1515915728
The Gloss 