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Attachments and Aversions

I wonder if what Buddhist classic meditation teachings refer to as "attachments" and "aversions," a Western medical doctor might label with different words, such as addiction and dissociative diversions. In both frames negative illusions may be recognized and appreciated as deep opportunities to learn; Negative delusions are not accurately cognized and are depreciated as too risky not to repress and hide from any therapeutic transporting transparent (not self-shaming) and vulnerable (not self-blaming) communication with our contemplative EgoTherapist within and our medical-model EcoTherapists without. Positive illusions, attachments and/or addictions, may be accurately cognized as sensory attractions, Whether smells and/or tastes, touch and/or feelings, sight and/or sound, eco-reception and/or mind/body communication, exterior and/or interior, May have potential to therapeutically transport away from addiction and toward less ego-obsessive attraction, and away from self-serving, potentially predative, attractions to positive sensory pleasure, cooperatively intended hoped faithed loved, eco-politically and personally and bilaterally and bicamerally healthy wealth of becoming completely satisfied sufficient simple centered in HereLeftYangSpace/NowRightYinternalTime and in past sensory satisfying memories and in future images imagination of pleasures climatically encompassing all of the above. Addiction to cooperative multicultural multigenerational regenerational and bicameral bilateral peak sensory experiences could be a healthier opportunity than addictions to competitive ego-monoculturing and mono-atheistic and autonomous predator/prey sensory risk ambivalence Where things don't necessarily smell or taste inviting, don't necessarily feel grateful to touch or feel inside my mindbody, don't necessarily transcendently transport when compromised win/lose beauty seen and ambiguously uninviting truth heard, falling short of healthy co-addiction to Earth's vast multicolored wealth of sensory ultra-nonviolent compassionate EarthTribe Yintegrity.

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