Question

Do you think it can be helpful to add more reflections to the five or seven reflections like topics or phrases so that they become 9 or 10 reflections that we can use regularly every day?

Answer

Yes, that's very helpful. Especially if you see, for instance, a particular subject about which it could be helpful for you to remember a balancing reflection each day. Some assistants have done this before, either through our encouragement or through their own ingenuity. Understanding, watching themselves and starting to see where they tend to get pulled into the eight worldly dhammas, and they then have added certain types of short reflections to keep their awareness of this.

So, it can be helpful. Probably though, if you add more and more it may not be such a short reflection, it may take a long time. So, I would imagine, don't keep it going and going until you are filling up an hour with this. However, have some that are particularly difficult for you at the present time. It may be very helpful and lots of our assistants have also seen that it is very helpful.

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