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This Thoughtless Life

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Alex Olshonsky
Aug 18, 2023
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Cestello Annunciation by Sandro Botticelli, 1489

If you’re anything like me, your mind is sometimes hyperactive. The stream of thoughts can become hectic, unruly, entirely absorbed within itself.

Which sucks.

In Buddhism, this is what’s known as papañca: the unhelpful and unskillful proliferation of mental output.

For me, the most effective way to “eject” …

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