Sublime

Neural Darwinism

STRUCTURE.

For instance, when participants share a positive experience about the practice, ask whether any participants experienced something challenging, and vice versa.

It’s really useful to be interested in how you make your own suffering.

Recall that our survival brain is geared to remember painful experiences more readily than pleasant ones; this is our negativity bias. Even when we can’t recall painful events in detail (which often happens with trauma), they remain deep in implicit memory, shaping our expectations, beliefs, and mood—the way we experience ourselves and the world. I

that, we are successful. In every repetition we become more powerful in our ability to control how we are experiencing any moment.

craving, identification, and avijjā – are ‘builders of the self and the world’. In contrast, mettā, compassion, samādhi, equanimity, and even generosity, build less self and less world. Thus

As animals subjected to the slow force of evolution, we have developed all sorts of heuristics, biases, and emotional responses that might have worked well on the savannah but are totally counterproductive in today’s world.