Think of yourself as a Gazelle.  You have seen them on The Discovery Chanel.  They have a little move called “stotting”.  They spring into the air lifting all four feet off the ground as if to say don’t bother chasing me. You can’t catch me and I’m right here. Now. This is an action that does not require understanding from the bottom up. No reasoning required.  The gazelle is in the moment. When challenged its reflex is to stot.  Daniel Dennett describes this type of behavior as “free floating rational”.   It is the reason why we do the things we do without knowing the reason.  We cough, we blink and we shiver. We can also stot.   Are you feeling enlightened?  The Buddha defined enlightenment as the end of suffering. Saṃsāra is the Sanskrit term for the endless cycle of suffering.  How do you end the torture and get off that ride?  In the west, we say “just let that shit go.”

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