[ExI] Practicing the Brain muscle

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If I may quote:
""The pleasure and joy that arise in dependence on the eye: this is the 
gratification in the eye. That the eye is impermanent, suffering, and 
subject to change: this is the danger in the eye. The removal and 
abandonment of desire and lust from the eye: this is the escape from 
the eye."

-Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha"
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Hi, not to proselitize or inject guilt but just practicing this brain 
muscle on critical thinking about the above quote.
In other words see no harm/evil, hear no evil/harmful thoughts, speak 
no evil and there is no evil intent if I may add.

We listen to our thoughts but don't think thoughts are realization of 
evil or good. Desires are natural genetic tendencies of primates who 
have brain. The problem arise when we are attached to primitive 
behaviors.

What are primitive behavior? The song advertised on TV says : "I want 
it all, I want it now."

Modification of primitive behavior as in cognitive therapy sometimes 
work on brains that are developing slowly.
Instant gratification is the objective of some who are attached to 
primitive behavior without practicing awareness to create extropy and 
avoid entropy.

Just practicing the brain :-P
Terry