axxuy:
It’s easy to notice how easily ideas slip away from our minds. But this is a distraction: when you focus on this you do not see that the same ideas slipped in just as easily. And they’ll keep doing that.
Ideas are cheap. Catch them if you can, but it’s not really worth worrying about them much.
This is an inside-out observation consonant with mindfulness: Thoughts-good and bad-are temporary appearances in our consciousness. (Non-dualists would add that we don’t “think” them from a central self or cognitive operator.)
While it can be frustrating to forget “good” ideas, it is inversely helpful that we are able to forget “bad” thoughts, too. Thoughts come, and thoughts go. You don’t have to identify with them.