so i'm reading four men shaking by lawrence shainberg. he visits a guy who lost his memory to study amnesia. he asks how he's doing and the guy always says, i'm having problems with my memory. one day he says, why not forget? you spend so much time trying to remember things—why not try to forget them? after all, you've got amnesia. you should be able to do that easily. the guy stares at him in disbelief and then laughs a loud angry stage laugh, and lawrence runs away aghast and maybe never comes back. so i'm thinking the amnesia is like lawrence's meditation. to go on with the mind, you need to keep coming back. amnesia is like the present. not time. present. to say why not just forget, they can't forget they can't remember. they have to remember the present. the mind is still being present, moment to moment. tomorrow is a concept, and a song.