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Repairing Attachment
In the Buddhist frame, you have the capacity to sense the object that can be sensed when there's contact. It's then evaluated for urgency, I like to say, does it need immediate attention? Does it not matter if we get to it? Is there time to have a pleasant experience? So this is very different than the Western idea of it. Aristotle really thought that we take in everything that's around us and we create an internal working model that is basically an accurate reflection of what is outside of us. That peculiaries 300 years later suggested that if you're in a strong emotional state that could affect the interpretation of the creation of the working model internally, that it was still largely accurate