Joel Schaefer

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Suffering is not abstract or conceptual. It’s embodied: you feel it in your body, and it proceeds through bodily mechanisms. Understanding the physical machinery of suffering will help you see it increasingly as an impersonal condition—unpleasant to be sure, but not worth getting upset about, which would just bring more second darts.
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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