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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-06-15 20:03, Adrian Tymes
wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">There is of course this old (by now) take on it:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even
agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed
to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have
received the information, now act on it. Take control of the
input and you shall become master of the output."</p>
<p dir="ltr">I wonder if that still holds, given what has been
discovered since that came out.</p>
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I was actually playing that game earlier tonight. Still valid, still
words of wisdom.<br>
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Psychological pain management can be associative or dissociative.
The dissociative approach is to ignore the pain and think about or
do other things. Associative pain management on the other hand
involves focusing on the pain and re-evaluating it so that it does
not cause suffering. You could say you mindfully concentrate on it
until it loses meaning. <br>
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Or as brother Lal would say:<br>
<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float:
none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Once a man has
changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he
cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of
necessity, involves a change in perspective.</span><br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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