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Effortlessness in Meditation, with Jud Brewer

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Buddha's Exploring Gratitude to Its End

Most people would report that kindness feels a lot more open and a lot better. We don't actually have to do a lot of reward in the classic sense, like give somebody a treat for being nice. So this is really fascinating. If we take the phrase that you were describing, of the buddha's exploring gratification to its end, then end up with something like what the historical buddha was talking about,. Werehe if you work on things like joy and compassion and feeling great about other people doing good and so on, that's a very different kind of mind state than sitting around smoking cigarettes or thinking about getting revenge on your enemies.

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