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AMP #196 Shinzen Young On The Mathematics Of Happiness

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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Pain Is Unavoidable

meditation is about being able to be the observer and witness what is happening from an impartial thing. And then seeking that equanimity to reduce it, which i love how you make it of that mathematical equation as makes perfect sense. So there's two spetial metaphors for equanimity. One is create distance it's over here. I'm over here. It can't get to me. If that metaphor works for you, go ahead and use it. But do understand, equanimity is not that metaphor K? The metaphor is not the reality. What we see here on the inside and outside are their own products,. At the microscopic level those circuits aren't interfering with themselves.

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