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Nick@nickcammarata• about 3 years ago

My preferred translations of tanha and dukkha are fast-grabby-thing and evil-vibrating-blob Makes it obvious what kind of thing to look for to see them. Translations like clinging & suffering make them sound like abstract ideas. They’re not, they’re fast subtle mental movements

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8/21/2022
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Matt@mattdsegal• about 3 years ago
Replying to @nickcammarata

@nickcammarata how do you think the fastness of these motions change how you would approach noticing them

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8/21/2022
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Matt@mattdsegal• about 3 years ago
Replying to @mattdsegal

@nickcammarata naively I would assume that if the motion is fast then your attention has to "get faster" (?) in some way as well

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8/21/2022
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lemonaut@lemondotpng• about 3 years ago
Replying to @nickcammarata

@nickcammarata tweet deserves 100% of its likes

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8/22/2022
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lemonaut@lemondotpng• about 3 years ago
Replying to @lemonaut1

@nickcammarata strict translations too often are a barrier to the felt-sense of a purely phenomenological Thing

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8/22/2022