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Whenever people are throwing things and screaming, that’s a tipoff that the brain is under new management. And even when jealousy isn’t in its rage phase, it has a conspicuously obsessive quality, compelling your mind to take particular trains of thought over and over.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
It is an approach that exemplifies the two important equations in this chapter: happiness equals reality minus expectations, and suffering equals pain times resistance.
Master of Change
Brad Stulberg
“The formless” isn’t a particularly well-known bit of Buddhist terminology. But there’s a better-known word that means roughly what this teacher meant by the term: emptiness.† Whichever term you use, the upshot is that, in the world out there, which seems so solid and so structured, so full of things with a distinct and tangible identity, there is less than meets the eye. This world of apparent forms is in some sense, as the Samadhiraja Sutra has it, a “mirage, a cloud castle, a dream, an apparition.” Or, as the Heart Sutra famously and pithily puts it, “Form is emptiness.”
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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