Unwinding Anxiety, with Dr. Jud Brewer
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
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What Is Dependent Origination?
There are 12 links independent origination, it can be pretty confusing to look at all of these. Basically, a queue comes into the mind, it gets evaluated as either pleasant or unpleasant and we have an urge to make that pleasant thing continue. This is where craving an aversion come in. If you eat some chocolate and it tastes good, if a craving eats some more, you eat some more. There's the behavior. Of not eating food that's spoiled, if it's unpleasant, so you don't take another bite. In ancient Buddhist psychology, they talked about this birth of a self-identity. And then, when we do this, the more this feeds back so that we
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