Forgetting is Better
2 min readSep 11, 2021
Ajahn Sumedho tells the story of visiting an elderly monk in a monastery who had suffered a stroke. Sumedho explains that this was a very learned man who had published multiple books.
The stroke had caused him to lose most of his memory.
Sumedho reports that he said he was much happier.
This is a very Buddhist story. In some sense, our identities, our egos, are mostly just…