I found @robertwrighter’s book on Buddhism a useful reminder of this fact. It certainly didn’t make me a Buddhist, but it helped me understand my own mind as a cognitive network that’s only doing its best to help me, even when it’s distressing or just wrong.
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*checks your feed to see if I still love you—yep, still love you madly*
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Overall, this would make politics and social activism so much more effective - as well as more humane, more dignified, more reality-based, and less delusional. I wrote this, on how we can apply such modes of thinking to the topic of privilegehttps://medium.com/@johnkirbow/seeing-our-blindspots-and-bridging-gaps-an-example-for-the-left-vs-center-divide-8c18fc887145 …
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Wow, best article I’ve read for ages. Thanks!
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Change often requires "negative" emotions
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What's the rationale for "hatred for change"?
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I’d modify “use them” into “take a hint from them”: e.g. letting hatred tell you there is something you want to change, but then trying to effect the change more calmly to avoid getting carried away by the emotion
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Is that after or before learning and practicing mindfulness?
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Guilt for self preservation.
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Dead for living
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