The Dorma, what the Buddha taught, goes, as he said, against the stream,

against the stream of particularly the way the world often works where we are taught to look for security amidst possessions, achievements, acclaim, fame, money, material things that we accumulate is the kind of dominant message that we are bombarded with that security is found that way.

And we're also taught that for various reasons when we are faced with challenging experiences,

that the safest thing to do is not only to accumulate and hoard resources but also to try to figure it out by ourselves, to try to figure it out by ourselves, to try to figure out what's going to happen.

The Buddha on many, many occasions talked about a peaceful mind that is liberated from needless stress as one that and uses this word

a nimito.

I like that word. it's often really badly translated.

Nimito means an omen, a portent, a clue, a sign, an... a

sign

an unlimited it means a mind

and unimito means a mind that doesn't hunt for omens or clues or

portents or signs

things that will tell us how the future will play out.

So it's a mind that doesn't fixate on looking for some hidden message like a Sherlock Holmes looking for some piece of lint or scuff mark or something that will unravel the hidden mystery of how life will play out.

And of course, we have narrative minds and since the dawn of narrative minds which are reliant

on symbols, words are reliant on symbols.

Words are symbols, images are symbols.

We are symbol-bearing creatures.

It's probably one of the faculties

that separate us from the rest of the species that are on this planet.

A symbol bearing, symbol using creatures we look for omens everywhere in our life.

We hear the word omens and it sounds kind of outdated.

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