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- People will dismiss things they intellectually understand but haven’t put into practice. Will believe their logic is correct.
- Dukkha-Guilt
- Remedied by duty + wealth + pleasure + liberation. OR liberation.
- Dharma: duty (support/constant)
- Learning to choose duty over pleasure. Innately hard.
- To become sober/overcome addiction, need competing reason.
- Doesn't need to be a "grand" purpose.
- Looking for a "grand" dharma very ego-gratifying. Big dreams can sabotage the capacity to work.
- Need to complete fundamental/base duties before accessing "grand" duties.
- PFC-NAcc (Pre-Frontal-Cortex; Nucleus Accumbens)
- PFC: Source of value assessment. If high activated NAcc
- NAcc: Source of motivation.
- If dream too big, any 1 action so INSIGNIFICANT for fulfilling goal = not worth it. = Reduced motivation.
- Be careful when your mind (NAcc) de-values something. PFC will rationalise the devaluation of it.
- "Mind" justifies ST behaviour unless trained to be LT.
- World conditions the mind to pursue pleasure. If the world can control your mind it can control your actions. Reason advertising behavioural neuroscience so effective.
- If expected gain + don’t get it = destroyed motivation.
- More externalised attention (sometimes in guise of productivity)= lost connection with self
- What should I do? Should answer from inside, NOT outside.
- Externalising attention = more crap on inside. Feeling worse = harder to internalise attention.
- Boredom: Is just existing with oneself. Becomes introspection.
- Can become vicious cycle: Technology suppresses amygdala/limbic system. Suppressing internal negative sensation. When stop = increased negative feeling. -> Behaviour of engaging with technology more.
- The more insecure you are = the harder boredom is.
- Tolerance of boredom gives control to self over “mind”, and the capacity to do things.
- Finding requires introspection.
- Moksha: liberation
- Existing beyond physical/mental sensations. Stimulating TPJ= out of body xp.
- Meditation:
- Becoming attention/awareness without an object. (Dyann)
- Enough time in this state makes suffering disappear.
- Gaining takes a very long time of slow progress.
- Arkva: Wealth
- Way of supporting our wants/needs through security.
- Protects from negative, enables positive.
- Kamma: pleasure
- Many of us conditioned to be controlled by pleasure.
- World today has so much pleasure that we can develop tolerance/numbness to pleasure. = addiction + no longer giving pleasure.
- Reliance on pleasure = emptiness.
- Information alone insufficient to overcome addiction.
- Stopping addiction incredibly painful.
- Duty can be used to counter addition,
- People look for motivation because they are lazy. When motivated = don't need to control self (actually lazy), don't require self-control. Screwed if we don't want something.
- We don't get to control our wants.
- Nature of wants to provide temporary fulfilment (hedonic treadmill)
- Transcendental meditation on chanting decade