How do I not forget again?

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Hello fellow traveler, also doing my work to remain present and open during all aspects of reality that present itself (taxes, bills, marriage, family, chopping wood, getting ass kicked, etc.). Two pieces. One is that I have a list of my intentions of bringing my spiritual self to the material world; essentially goals of how I wish to manifest my being. A simple one page list, that I read once a day daily. Been doing this for 18 years. It's of course evolved over the years, moving steadily away from more heavily material goals to lighter, more spiritually open goals. The second is that I've begun a practice of saying a sacred mantra in my mind at all points and times in my waking life, wish I have found is much more practical than other forms of trying to getting myself present.

The nembutsu (Namu Amida Butsu) which is known in the Japanese Pure Land Shin tradition as a call for the primordial Buddha. Shinran, the founder of the sect, was fed up with the difficulties of working through the practice in monastic settings and wanted a practice that could be done in everyday life for those who couldn't live a monastic's life for moral or obligatory reasons (mothers, prostitutes, butchers, hunters, gangsters, soldiers, etc.). I have found it quite, quite powerful - this is coming from a more analytical practice of Zen and Vipassana for most of my practicing life.

But it's very challenging to hold that open view in every day life with those practices, whereas that simple, three word mantra over and over again creates such fascinating openings and opportunities to yoke the energy in the moment, in real time, even in immense pain or suffering, with the practice.

Just an observation from another traveler and practitioner.