here’s much in life we’d prefer to forget, but the human mind tends to remember the bad and forget the good, which partly explains why negative thoughts are so hard to quash. We’ll keenly remember a heated argument with a friend, but struggle to recall the details of an idyllic picnic with family. great day to be alive...”) – it’s the negative thoughts, the unpleasant memories, the unwanted personal desires that hold ground in human consciousness. It’s therefore understandable that there’s an ancient Taoist practice called ‘sitting and forgetting’, which is about learning to forget the disappointments, regrets and loss, or ‘unlearning’ what you know, so as to get closer to the flow of life, or the Tao.
