Remembering
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A bunch of you may be a load of pinkos, and you may not like the Coca-Cola company, but it's worth
remembering
Andy Warhol's point about Coke.
We need to bring health and food and education and respect for all God's citizens, all God's children,
remembering
mama eternal.
We take the feeling about
remembering
a mama, and we defuse that to all beings in this meditation.
Then you move from there to
remembering
the kindness of mothers in general, if you can remember the kindness of your own mother, if you can remember the kindness of your spouse, or, if you are a mother yourself, how you were with your children.
And by
remembering
to stop at 80 percent it helps keep you from doing that very thing.
But the pain, the discomfort, you know, paying attention,
remembering
to put it in your purse when you go on a long trip: These are the day-to-day of life, and they do pose problems.
And then there is a
remembering
self, and the
remembering
self is the one that keeps score, and maintains the story of our life, and it's the one that the doctor approaches in asking the question, "How have you been feeling lately?" or "How was your trip to Albania?" or something like that.
Those are two very different entities, the experiencing self and the
remembering
self, and getting confused between them is part of the mess about the notion of happiness.
Now, the
remembering
self is a storyteller.
Now this is a direct conflict between the experiencing self and the
remembering
self.
And if you do that for a couple of minutes, you have made the experiencing self of Patient A worse off, and you have the
remembering
self of Patient A a lot better off, because now you have endowed Patient A with a better story about his experience.
Most of them are completely ignored by the
remembering
self.
And how to spend it would seem to be relevant, but that is not the story that the
remembering
self keeps for us.
So we have the
remembering
self and the experiencing self, and they're really quite distinct.
That's not the way it works at all for the
remembering
self.
For the
remembering
self, a two-week vacation is barely better than the one-week vacation because there are no new memories added.
And in this way, time is actually the critical variable that distinguishes a
remembering
self from an experiencing self; time has very little impact on the story.
Now, the
remembering
self does more than remember and tell stories.
And basically you can look at this, you know, as a tyranny of the
remembering
self, and you can think of the
remembering
self sort of dragging the experiencing self through experiences that the experiencing self doesn't need.
I have that sense that when we go on vacations this is very frequently the case; that is, we go on vacations, to a very large extent, in the service of our
remembering
self.
That is one of the explanations that is given for the dominance of the
remembering
self.
If you ask for the happiness of the
remembering
self, it's a completely different thing.
The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self and the satisfaction of the
remembering
self has been recognized in recent years, and there are now efforts to measure the two separately.
In terms of the other self, the
remembering
self, you get a different story.
How to enhance happiness goes very different ways depending on how you think, and whether you think of the
remembering
self or you think of the experiencing self.
So, I have this knack of
remembering
all of the players.
And also, when we think about the rise of Asia, or return of Asia as I called it a little bit earlier, it's worth
remembering
Asia's not one thing.
We spend hours
remembering
their smile, how great they made us feel, that time we hiked up the mountain and made love under the stars.
And so to avoid idealizing, you have to balance them out by
remembering
their frown, not just their smile, how bad they made you feel, the fact that after the lovemaking, you got lost coming down the mountain, argued like crazy and didn't speak for two days.
Like...
remembering
to lock your front door when you go out.
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