new thoughts/behaviour + sanity

While those sorts of reactions might feel like the right things to do at the time, they don’t really help: instead of feeling better, we will likely feel even worse. Our whole body might be filled with even more uncomfortable sensations: those are the “second darts” we create, which we then react to even more, by which discomfort or physical pain... See more

An important distinction to make, therefore, is the difference between a fetter and a behavior which indicates we have that fetter. For example, craving itself is not a fetter; it is merely a symptom of being fettered by desire. While we and those around us might tend to notice behaviors and consider those to be fetters, the actual fetter is the... See more