The Second Arrow Is Our Reaction to the First

The buddha described two arrows that and i think this is a really good description of how we get stuck. The fr arrow is the natural experience that we humans have of aggression or greed or craving, just the stuff that arises in in this human animal that we are. And the second arrow is self aversion the fact of the first arrow that we we experience,. That the appearance of whether we're nasty, selfish, greedy, whatever it is. We can't stop the sense of aggression from arising, but we can, if we slow things down, not necessarily hate ourselves for it. So i often think of these two arrows in terms of our developing brain.