Ep. 22 Clear Comprehension
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Hallucination of Perception
The Dalai Lama talks about the two types of delusion. The first is called hallucination, or distortion of mind. He says it's when we take a stick to be a snake and then all thoughts about snakes rise in the mind. This can cause us to think: 'Is this poisonous? Is not poisn do something?' It also leads to delusions such as self-hatred that are difficult to overcome.
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