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A lot of goal-selection precision is just emotional range in disguise. The more feelings you’ve felt, and the wider the range of intensities, the more the right goals will click unmistakably in any situation. Gen Z seems to be rediscovering Gendlin/focusing for training this.
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When you are attempting to learn jhānas, this unrelenting mindfulness is the most useful of all the practices4 given in the Satipaṭṭhāna Suttas. This practice itself won’t generate sufficient concentration to enter a jhāna—but it will make it much more likely that any method that you do undertake to generate such concentration is actually effective.
Right Concentration
Leigh Brasington
Consummation can alter the balance of affection. Though the average woman is more selective in unleashing her ardor than the average man, she should, in theory, be less inclined to rein it in once it has left the gate.
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
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