Buddhism
Why do we get to fail to see the whole picture about craving and fleetingness?
Dopamine - pleasure and reward chemical
To get genes to next generation: sex, eating, social status
Deliver some pleasure after the animal reaches different goals
Make the pleasure evaporate shortly thereafter
Make the animal focus more on the pleasure than on the
there are some weird animals; they first developed a gene for alcohol resistance (by eating to many of those plants) and then, sustainability for chilli pepper or the chemical which is …. the reason was only to get high
2-3 Mindfulness Meditation and the Brain
Default mode network - active when not doing anything in particular. This networks seems activated or co-activated when we perform these types of self-referential tasks.
Judson Brewer
It gets your mind from wherever you are. It’s your kind wandering. Usually it’s thinking about the past or the future. No
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self doesn’t exist. self is the reason for our suffering. karma is what we get if we do or don’t break the patterns
Тот кто не помнит прошлого, обречен прожить его снова.
Сантаяна
Быть - значит быть воспринимаемым
Беркли (субъективный идеализм)
Лакан Primary identification (возможно)
Проблема быть вообще, эго, восприятие реальности, что значит быть собой, отношения я/другие
Переживание Я как Я от третьего лица как следствие развития визуальных культур
Psyllocybine in mushrooms is said to release the control over our regular perceptions. What is actually happening while you’re high? What does it mean to control your perceptions and how do we know that the reality isn’t illusionary?
First Noble Truth
The Truth of Suffering
OR
Dukkha (or Duhkha)
Nibbana (or Nirvana - Sanskrit) - revelation from suffering
Dhamma (or Dharma) - the path that the Buddha said we should tread OR truth about the way universe is structured. Dharma is the unseen order. In Buddhist teachings we found how to harmoniously adjust ourselves to this order.
Suff
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unseen order - truth about how things work
These truths always go unseen, because human mind tend to have distortions or illusions - we don’t see the world clearly. How to bring our lives to reality?
We can relieve our suffering or end our suffering and in a process align ourselves with
... See moresuffering comes from the concept of self. self doesn’t only mean acquiring one’s identity by which I mean a particular hairstyle, whimsical house decor or annoying voice intonations - it is also about the Desire. human beings desire and desire make us suffer since we never get what we desire because the object of desire exists nowhere but in out own mind. once we get a vague shadow of that desire, we crave for more - thus, creating a recipe for suffering