The brain has a wonderful capacity to simulate experiences, but there's a price: the simulator pulls you out of the moment, plus it sets you chasing pleasures that aren't that great and resisting pains that are exaggerated or not even real.
-- Buddha's Brain, p. 48
How do we stay in the present?
- watch our breath
- listen to the sounds around us
- soften our faces
- slow down
- do one thing at a time
