Good thread on how positive emotion gets coagulated/fixated, and filtered through conceptual models which reduces satisfaction (and increases suffering).https://twitter.com/xuenay/status/1042366563544952832 …
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The answer in both of these practice lineages is pretty similar: look at the emotion with sufficient stability/clarity of attention & equanimity, and you realise how it is your non-equanimous relationship to the sensation which causes the system to seize up and hurt like hell.
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Hopefully I haven't bastardised @xuenay's insights - which I think are great - because I think there are subtle differences & I don't want to pretend we're saying the same thing. The use of 'craving' is a pretty particular way of modelling it, and I'm not sure I fully comprehend.
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Interesting; I'm not familiar with coagulation so not sure if I fully understand it, but if I had to put into words what it most reminds me of, in terms of my own conceptual framework... is that "conceptual proliferation" would correspond to something like subprograms imposing
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a template of their own _preferred_ interpretation on top of the raw sensory data; which has both the property of biasing the perception towards what the programs desire to perceive, and also creating a desire for things to be different. Shinzen's book talked about getting into
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