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Ep. 13 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing

Dr. John Vervaeke

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The Paradox of Duka

As you get a tighter, narrower, less flexible cognitive agency, the number of options in the world goes to. These two things reciprocally narrow to where you have no options as to who you could be or how the world can be. And that's addiction. It is a learned, not propositionally learned, perspectively participatory learning of a loss of agency. That's Duka. No matter where you turn, this is always threatening. You can't run away from it. Remember the Buddha tried. Self-denial. This is like trying to hop over your shadow. All of this is endemic. I pointed out to Mark that if this is the case, there must be

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