NEW232Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Constant Craving, Vicara, Vitarka

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21 Dec 2019
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How the 8-fold path can lead to unconditioned happiness. Obstacles prevent the mind form freeing itself from ignorance, lack of awareness and conditioning. Most of those obstacles have to do with the natural motivations like craving desire hate ignorance . Those obstacles exist at 3 levels (each one is more manifest than the others) Motivation is aroused or stimulated and experienced as thoughts, feelings, intentions, motivations, conscious awareness. Behavioural or enacted level (vitikkama) defilement or obstacle takes the form of action or speech; externalized, overcome inhibitions or social rules, may be impulsive and spontaneous. You need to see things as they are, no delusion, no ignorance. Develop the ability to restrain projection idealizations and attribution from the experience with which will then diminish negative mental states and associated the dysfunctional behaviour. (less hard to change) Discipline behaviour to engage with others self and society at large in a skillful manner (least difficult to change)

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