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When we obtain pleasure from anything, we increase what it’s called “receptor density“. When you have higher receptor density and you stop doing the activity, t
by FollowingTheDao 3y ago
When we obtain pleasure from anything, we increase what it’s called “receptor density“. When you have higher receptor density and you stop doing the activity, those neurons don’t fire.
And this is why in Taoism as well as Buddhism, the goal is to lose attachment to all things.
- jnathsf 3y ago>And this is why in Taoism as well as Buddhism, the goal is to lose attachment to all things. That's not my understanding of attachment in Eastern religions. It's focused on not being attached to the outcomes of your actions.
- FollowingTheDao 3y agoThe Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.
- scns 3y agoCheck out The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, he uses few words to say a lot: "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/195483926X/ https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/195483926X/
- nelox 3y agoSo my goal should be to not have a goal. Wait.
- FollowingTheDao 3y agoTo be free from a prison, you have to walk out of the prison. So even your last step to freedom is dictated by your captor. A goal to end all goals. It is as easy as it sounds, do not even try to have no goal.