from the Dharma you depart, break the Buddha's heart

 step on a crack break your momma's back

“Step on a crack, break your momma's back” is a phrase said mostly by children in groups which acts a game.

 Group members, while walking on sidewalks or roads, must avoid stepping on cracks in the ground.

 A mistaken step might result in insults from the group or personal feelings of dishonoring one's mother.

What is the origin of the superstition stepping on cracks?

It's believed in the U.S. that stepping on a crack in the ground is considered bad luck.

 This superstition stems from one variation of an old children's rhyme that goes 

 "step on a crack, break your momma's back."

 So if you don't want to break your mother's back, don't step on a crack!

from the Dharma you depart, break the Buddha's heart

What is this?

It's a game for all ages. 

It's just another way to say "do satipaṭṭhāna. all the time!", as the Buddha instructed.

But many people aren't compelled by cold hard rationality, so 

"from the Dharma you depart, break the Buddha's heart"

adds some emotional stakes to the same instruction.

You wouldn't want to disappoint the Buddha, the arahants, and the noble sangha who kept a pure Dharma alive for 2500 years would you?

8.7 - 🐘Sammā-Sati: right remembering [of Dharma]

kāye kāyā-(a)nu-passī viharati	He lives continuously seeing the body as a body [as it truly is].
vedanāsu vedanā-(a)nu-passī viharati	He lives continuously seeing sensations as sensations [as it truly is].
citte cittā-(a)nu-passī viharati	He lives continuously seeing a mind as a mind [as it truly is].
dhammesu dhammā-(a)nu-passī viharati	He lives continuously seeing ☸Dharma as ☸Dharma [as it truly is].
(… elided refrain from each way…)	[in each of the 4 ways of remembering]:
ātāpī sampajāno satimā,	he is ardent 🏹, he has lucid discerning 👁, he remembers 🐘 [to apply relevant ☸Dharma].
vineyya loke abhijjhā-do-manassaṃ;	he should remove greed and distress regarding the world.

”Sati” should be “always on”, no off switch position

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Anytime you don’t have the “sati” switch flipped in the “on” position, you are in grave danger.

explicit reference to “grave danger”

SN 47.6 Sakuṇagghi: simile of quail: always stay in 4sp (satipatthana), to avoid deathSN 47.7 Makkaṭa: simile of monkey: always stay in 4sp, to avoid deathLook at the 10 min. video for “how to find water in the desert with a monkey”. It is reminiscnent of SN 47.7. Is there a closer monkey simile in other suttas?https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-xQ-dmllWHsfScuHNE_P7Jze3uneu0w1?ogsrc=32 3SN 47.20 Janapada-kalyāṇī: world beauty queen, man with sword, balance bowl of oil

strongly implicit reference to “grave danger”

AN 7.67 sati is the wise gate keeper. If he lets in the bad guys, danger and death!https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/an-7-67-fortress-thanissaro-translation-with-pali-ma-3-excerpt-and-doodle/7583

milder implicit sutta references to “grave danger”

SN 46.53 Anytime is the right time for sati (sutta on balancing 7sb to counter 5niv) satiñca khvāhaṃ, bhikkhave, sabbatthikaṃ vadāmī”ti. “As for mindfulness, I tell you, that serves every purpose.”4sp = 4 sati-(u)patthana, i.e. 4 remembrance establishings. “Establishing” means the sati switch should always be flipped in the “on” position, never in the off posiiton. The word satipatthana appears in countless places, and sammā-sati, “right-remembering”, is often defined as 4sp.