No Labels Necessary | Alex P #16 | 2.20.22

Alex and Dhammarato discuss how doubts and fears become imaginary survival issues and how the wisdom of situational awareness and being in the senses restores our sense of safety and security.

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00:00:00 I’m not my thoughts or feelings

00:07:22 Representation and reality in paticcasamuppāda

00:12:50 The language of the self-preservation instinct is fear: I’m in danger

00:18:38 Get into the senses and gather new information

00:25:52 Wisdom, situational awareness, childish fear: freezing, fight, flight

00:33:42 Unwholesome thoughts proliferate in modern society

00:38:46 Seeing fear as a survival issue; zero-sum games; generosity

00:46:16 Sukha has the qualities of safety, security, and wealth borne of generosity

00:57:12 Seeing a thought as empty is a wholesome thought

01:02:09 Liking something without wanting it

01:04:01 Investigating nothing; fear and OCD

01:10:41 Doubts as fears; being satisfied with fear

01:15:02 Whataboutisms, holding things lightly; waking up

01:18:28 There’s more music to learn