Concept

Attention

3 passages · 2 traditions

Buddhist

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Saṁyutta Nikāya 36.6, “An Arrow”"Mendicants, an unlearned ordinary person feels pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings. A learned noble disciple also feels pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings. What, then, is the diffe…

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Reflection: rehearsing the futureWorry feels like preparation. That is the trick of it. Running the bad outcome again tonight will not make you readier for it than running it once did, and you have already run it once. The…
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Reflection: what the pain is askingPain arrives with instructions attached, and most of them are wrong. It says: fix this now. It says: this will not end. It says: you should have seen it coming, and someone is to blame, and…

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