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Throughout the meditation world, we hear regularly about the importance of present-centered

attention.

And there's one story of a kind of contemporary Buddha figure, man, person who falls out of

a 15-story window.

And as the story goes around the eighth floor, someone sticks their head out and says,

hey, you're doing okay?

And this Buddha guy says, well, so far so good.

And what I like about that is that obviously for most of us, Buddhas to be, Buddhas in

training, we're hooked by the anticipation of what's to come.

We don't stay that right here.

Rather, we're pretty chronically, especially due to our negativity bias anticipating that

around the corner, something is going to go wrong or when we hit bottom, it's going

to be like we're crashing.

So we have a real strong tendency in conditioning to worry and to obsess.

And of course, Mark Twain's famous comment, most people know this these days, the worst

things in my life never actually happened.

So a lot of that we're in obsessing is for not.

And this is our predicament that we've moved through a lot of life moments in the tightness

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