Agreed. Yet there are paths and commonalities. A lot of people seem to follow something fairly recognizably the Buddhist 4 stage path, for example.
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The process of actively deconstructing & destroying belief systems and other conditioning has been the particularly lengthy and unpleasant part.
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This is true for me as well. Especially when you start to see beliefs and conditioning fucking everywhere, it can get overwhelming. Belief might be somewhat easier to work with, but virtually nothing is independent of conditioning.
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You can't fully escape conditioning unless you're unconscious; you can only get better at recognizing it in real time, and loosening its grip. That's not to say you can't shed specific conditions -- but you'll always be replacing it with other conditions.
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A lot of people seem to think you can reduce the amount of conditioning. Can't get rid of it entirely, of course, but it does feel like I just have less.
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Any functional human mind has to be conditioned by something, because nothing is independent of conditions. I agree that when you recognize that conditions are not you, then you can reduce or change them, though a lot of conditioning is biological/evolutionary.
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Yep, I'm talking about social conditioning specifically. The more I remove it and expose the deeper biological / evolutionary conditioning, the happier I seem to become. Millions of years of wisdom built into that.
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Agree that suffering decreases when you remove social conditioning, though you also get increasingly more lonely as you realize that everyone around you is fucking crazy.
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