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Note that raw physical pain still present

But this pain needn’t be so gripping

Analogy with hot coal and hand: Mental habits make one grasp it

Note clinics with mindfulness programs

Enslavement to story requiers coordination of all sort of mental habits

Need to defend view from internal doubts

Need to defend view from others

Sometimes almost ritualistic: Must limit behavior in prescribed ways

Shaun: putting down need to defend “hard worker”/”MIT student”

enjoy being in traffic!! defendagainst criticism ****more greater

Greater compassion:

Come to be “truly with” someone => more sensitive to needs, desires

when don’t push away from oboxious people, can see suffering in them

Barriers lowered

Less compulsively defensive

Mom and grandma h

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