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One of the Buddha's most central teachings, absolute foundational for any understanding of the

Dormas, the Paticea Samupata, you don't have to know that word.

What it means literally is a little bit difficult to translate directly into English.

Essentially, the teaching is a list of stages that we go through in the process of human development.

And it lists not only overall like a theory of how we develop thoughts and behaviors are actually influenced by factors that are very often unconscious.

The Buddha in this Patitez Semabada basically outlines how we think, feel and act, results in this series of, as I said, stages. And one of the earliest stages in this teaching is what he calls

Nama Rupa which essentially is a proto-personality a group of traits that are established very, very, very young in life.

And they create what could be referred to as unconscious traits or predilections that play a very important role in how we perceive the world and how we act in the world.

These unconsciously stored traits,

what Nama Rupa literally means his body mind,

it's kind of a very core development. It's stored for the entire entire

for the entirety of our life.

And these traits, when we come into contact

with resident experiences and situations in the world that trigger us, they create

or send messages to us, encouraging, urging, influencing how we respond to life's various situations.

The messages are sent through what's called Vedina or feeling and they shape these feelings

shape how we the Buddha said not only perceive the world but all of our

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