So it'll come as no surprise that in life there is shitty experiences with a

Buddha called Dutat.

It's a good sounding word for the shitty experiences that can happen in life.

Experiences can be external of course, losing people, things we love, being separated from the people we love being

Getting into conflict and

feeling mistreated in specific or in situations.

There can be frustrating events in life

from getting on your bike and finding the tires flat,

or missing the subway to,

having something stolen or fall apart.

There's the traumatic experiences in life,

accidents, violence experiences to just the run of the mill daily difficulties.

And then... difficulties.

And then not only are sometimes difficult experiences

external, but sometimes they're not real. We can have traumatic or really, really painful thoughts.

We might find out that a friend threw a party and we weren't invited and then the thought can arise and nobody likes me.

I don't ever get invited to the fun thing. Nobody wants me to be around. So we can really, of course, create miserable experiences as well.

We can fall into despairing thoughts about our worth,

or value, concerns about what will happen to us in the future,

negative ideations about what we believe to be our true nature or whatever.

And interestingly enough, whenever the mind has a really deeply negative experience, whether it's something that's actually happening out there,

or something that's just a product of a self-centered or self-conscious mind. The amygdala during a very discouraging experience will note all the stimuli that's around, not just the actual stimuli that has to do with the event that's causing us

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