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Deeply Buried In The Mind, There Lies A Mechanism That Accepts What The Mind Experiences As Beautiful And Pleasant And Rejects Those Experiences That Are Perceived As Ugly And Painful. This Mechanism Gives Rise To Those States Of Mind That We Are Training Ourselves To Avoid-- Things Like Greed, Lust, Hatred, Aversion, And Jealousy.

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Deeply Buried In The Mind, There Lies

Henepola Gunaratana

Deeply Buried In The Mind, There Lies A Mechanism That Accepts What The Mind Experiences As Beautiful And Pleasant And Rejects Those Experiences That Are Perceived As Ugly And Painful. This Mechanism Gives Rise To Those States Of Mind That We Are Training Ourselves To Avoid-- Things Like Greed, Lust, Hatred, Aversion, And Jealousy.

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