suffering is like a friction burn caused by grasping onto the present moment, like how it hurts to grasp a fast moving rope. no grasp, no friction burn
so yeah, there are eight of them, the form and the formless, you like, focus on an object - no, no, an object in your mind - and then you kind of like, reverse panic attack
@nickcammarata I mean in centerless immersion to the surroundings the triggers are a distant echo of an aversion reaction made independent. I feel like these echoes get very quiet once in a j6+ state but can still be tickled into a sensation or the memory of it
I'm telling you, the brain is a non-linear optical computer. Your "light of attention" literally refracts, diffracts, and reflects throughout the contents of your world simulation, and you end up concentrating on wherever the optical cusps arise 😄
The PageRank of attention!
Key Shinzen Young teaching:
Pain X Resistance = Suffering
Pleasure X Resistance = Frustration
Pain X Equanimity = Purification
Pleasure X Equanimity = Satisfaction
Now turn this into a series of differential equations and we'll have the Maxwell's equations of hedonicity.