Modern Wisdom · 2025-07-17 · 99 min · 16,866 words

The Psychology of Obsession, Rumination & Letting Go - Dr Rick Hanson - #968

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In Buddhism there's this um View In early Buddhism especially that life is meh. Very unsatisfactory because everything keeps ending. Well wait a second.

First of all, if you're not attached to what's happening, the fact that it's endlessly changing is Not itself a problem, and meanwhile, there's the endless arising. And so there's some physics about that. Why is there time at all? And uh one of the leading theories comes from this professor Uh Mular M U L E R A U C Berkeley. That

No Big Bang universe is a four dimensional space time universe. Space is expanding. There's evidence for that. And We don't notice it'cause it's so big. We're continually being stretched, just a tiny, tiny wee bit.

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