this is not a point that will translate well into tweets probably, but generally i think people's relationship to the concept of "why" a thing happens - causes - is weirdly fucked in a way that i have trouble concisely pointing to
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misattribution of causes was one of the biggest insights for me in my ten years of Buddhism
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would be curious to hear more if you have examples!
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it just offered me a much more expansive systems view of causality vs like "my ability to be happy is located in the execution of this action " which had the impact of slowing things down? providing a gap between impulse and action? i can't think of anything specific!
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but it does truly, in my experience, lead to less suffering, because of how much suffering is caused by being confused about the causes of my happiness, my suffering, etc.
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