How to remember breath more quickly when one is emotional?
Why we forget anything?
Just answer me, why do we forget?
Forgetful is a distraction.
A deviation from our action.
Am I clear?
Suppose I have to read this, while reading a thought enters, and
my mind went into the thought.
Although my eyes are open, it is not reading.
It is a distraction.
You all are sitting here.
Looking at, suppose, Prajnanananda.
And listening to him.
In between, some thought came.
You are physically present here, but you became absent minded.
When you are absent minded, although you are here, you are not listening.
It happens.
So, this is a distraction.
In life, a successful person is always mindful, watchful, alert and active.
Time is really short.
In life, what happens?
Emotion, frustration, unhappiness, sadness, being critical of others, finding fault in others.
It is the psychological distraction, it is a sign of mental sickness.
And which creates emotion.
Emotions are of two types.
Negative emotion, positive emotion.
Negative emotion, I told you,
and positive emotion, love, excitement, running to do something.
But even in positive emotion, many times we forget.
We forget breath in both the times.
When we are excited or we are sad.
One who is watching breath will see that this negative thought is coming.
Suppose I am sitting with eyes closed.
And watching my breath.
Breath is flowing in and coming out.
If I am watching and watching, in between, some thought will come.
It will make my mind to flow down with the thought, forgetting breath.
If I am not again mindful to bring my mind back to breath,
it goes with the thought.
There, there, there. It is roaming somewhere.
I am sitting here.
The same thing what happens, emotion comes.
Emotion is an outburst in the person’s behaviour.
At that time, when forgets his or her own being.
Suppose I am angry.
If I am angry, anger is an emotion.
During anger, I forget that it is not my nature.
I will tell you a little bit on nature.
The nature of water is coolness.
Suppose you want to take a cup of tea.
The cup of tea is hot, warm.
The warmness in tea is induced in water trough some external matter.
And if you keep the cup of tea just in the cup, not in the teapot on the stove.
If in the cup, after a few minutes it is cold.
Because it goes back into its nature.
So warmness in water is induced into it, with some external conditioning.
Similarly, anger is not our nature.
Jealousy is not our nature.
But we induce it, with our wrong habit, with our wrong approach, with our negative thinking.
We induce it, and more and more you induce, one continuing anger or unhappiness.
By nature, we are love, we are loving.
By nature we are peaceful, peace.
By nature we are consciousness.
By nature we are knowledge.
By nature we are immortal.
By nature we are blissful.
This is our nature.
Anger is not our nature. Ego is not our nature.
Emotion is not our nature. Unhappiness is not our nature.
Restlessness is not our nature.
It is induced.
So, when these negative emotion are put, or positive emotion it comes,
it makes us forgetting our nature.
But when you are a little bit more and more conscious, and a few practice.
Always to keep yourself reminded: 'Don’t be angry.'
Watch your breath.
You should adopt some external means.
Oh it was..., I forgot.
And once you are a little bit more alert,
Then there is no need of... it will come to you.