septal area is responsible for the most desirable self stimulation- it's intensely pleasurable and has a sexual flavor (there were some human electrode studies)
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the lateral hypothalamic corridor is distinct from the septal area, is also a site of self stimulation, and responds unconditionally to bodily need state. it's the neuroanatomy that Panksepp's SEEKING system is concentrated in it's responsible for anticipation of reward
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there maybe other pleasure systems i am not familiar with but there is neuroanatomical basis for pleasure to arise independently of activity of SEEKING
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Do you think we can transcend this pleasure in our practice as we transcend suffering or desire?
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i don't know if seeking (lower case here because it's outside of a scientific context) ends, I know I have not fully investigated: i still get a sense of seeking for the stream of experience and a sense it maybe extra seeking maybe also what is referred to as tanha
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i've greatly reduced grosser seeking/thirst/motivated interest, so i know this is a dimension it maybe possible to move further along
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i don't think it's possible to transcend hedonic tone i think it's possible to transcend attachment to, seeking of, hedonic tone
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Can you expand on why you dont think it's possible to transcend hedonistic tone? Initial reaction, I feel like I disagree.
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by transcend hedonic tone i would mean, the end of perceptions of pleasurable, neutral, displeasurable i think they are too tied in with basic perception but i've transformed sever pain which I wanted to end into... still unpleasant but something which I'd surrendered to
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I've done this as well. But I disagree, I think we can totally see stimulus in a completely neutral manner, totally dispassionate, pain or pleasure. I've done it and it is written about a lot. Methinks you need to go deeper into the Jhanas, friend.
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Sometimes called a "ninth jhāna," nirodha samāpatti entails the complete suspension of hedonic tone and perceptual cognition. The meditator in this state appears comatose from an outside observer's perspective. From inside, there is absolutely no content whatsoever.
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Yes. Perfect. But in an empty state..what are you other than a 'useless'(my perception) passive observer? You might as well not even exist. Is this the nature of the Godhead?
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No observation/observer occurs in such an "empty state," which is nonetheless an ideal spearhead for radical transmutation of consciousness, as upon dropping back into the "sphere of nothingness" from nirodha, the mind undergoes an unprecedented cleansing of defilements.
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