Earlier today I realised that I had forgotten a train ticket (along with other documents) in a restaurant, so I ended up missing my train because I had to go ba

Earlier today I realised that I had forgotten a train ticket (along with other documents) in a restaurant, so I ended up missing my train because I had to go back and collect my documents. As soon as I realised this was the case, I knew it was too late for me. In the spur of the moment, I shouted "fuck!" and people were looking at me. It felt so right at the time, as if I deserved to swear. My mind had been assailed by my senses. Many of the situations in which we want to swear can be counteracted by mindfulness of the phenomena surrounding you. When you remember not to get caught up in your internal world of judgements, and remember to guard your senses (including the mind as one of our senses) then swearing becomes a lot less necessary to deal with a situation. Ideally we'd like to not have to deal with situations, because the whole mental component of the situation is missing. Mindfulness gets us there, whereas swearing does not.