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Core Buddhist teachings of the darma, The Buddha noted that all human beings have what he called Anousayas.

Some people now pronounce them Anousayas.

They're sometimes unconscious,

sometimes barely were aware of them,

their predilections or tendencies, and very often their tendencies or

predilections that were not too especially comfortable with or proud of.

there, for example,

predilections to addictively crave

short-term pleasures, to seek tribal superiority, tendencies of overwhelming fear of the unknown and unfamiliar,

tendencies to resist anything that's even slightly unpleasant.

So Anasaiers are survival and pleasure first.

They're very antisocial.

Nobody feels particularly proud of the impulses associated with Anasaius. But they express

themselves through feelings and impulses and as the Buddha noted, they can become so insistent that these feelings can

urge us all the time to act in transgressive or ways that cause suffering for ourselves and for others.

It's interesting that the Buddha noted that there's no way to directly

address these underlying tendencies or impulses. They're kind of a given from his perspective.

The solution he provides is to observe feelings in and of themselves which contain or express or exhibit these very disturbing

impulses to allow the feelings to arise and pass in the body.

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