Restlessness & Regrets ... !!!

[Bhikkhu Samahita]

Friends:

How does Restlessness & Regret Agitate Mind?

A Brahmin Priest once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Master Gotama, what is the cause of being unable to remember even something that has
been memorized over a long period and also that which has not been memorized?
Brahmin, when mind is agitated by restlessness & regret, stressed, troubled & tyrannized
by restlessness & regret, and one does not understand any actual safe escape from this
arisen restlessness & regret, in that moment, one can neither see nor understand any of
what is advantageous, neither for oneself, nor for others, nor for both oneself & others.
Then, consequently, even texts, that have been long memorized, cannot be remembered…
Why is this neglect so? Imagine a bowl of water with the surface stirred up by the wind
into ripples, undulations and small wavelets. If a man with good eye-sight were to inspect
the reflection of his own face in it, he would neither see nor recognize it, as it really is!
So too, brahmin, when mind is distracted by restlessness & regret, excited, perturbed &
upset by restlessness & regret, on any such occasion even texts long memorized do not
recur to the mind, not to speak of those texts, events & information, that have not been
memorized at all…

On how to prevent Restlessness & Regret (curable anxiety), details & calming inspiration:

1: Systematic and Frequent Attention to the calm of both Bodily and Mental Tranquillity!

Tranquil ease: Forest Bliss: http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Forest_Bliss.htm

Hindrance - Nivarana: http://www.what-buddha-said.org/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm

Therapy and Comments: http://www.what-buddha-said.org/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:123] section 46: The Links. 55: To Sangarava...

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