ow! how ow? no ow, wow! now how?
heard [mainly just nick] talk about smth called tanha n dukkha seems rly impt n relvant
tanha is the cause of dukkha which is all suffering
Oh yo wtf this is the four noble truths i hesitate to call it that bc it feels religious and has weird connotations to onlookers, so lets call it something like the [the four premises of the first mostly-complete* prototype of happymaxxing] or smth idk like the commentary before, i wanna sorta separate “”the 4 noble truths”” from its religious connotation and emphasize that it’s just a set of four premises that the buddha made for happymaxxing, like isaac newton F=ma
- cuz he was making innovations from things like the jhanas which were alr known ((also btw sidenote, dont think of that as necessarily super crazy mystical special legendary, insert nick tweet on jhanas easy rediscover))
now elaborate on NGD and wystan translations and how these r much better actually
now elaborate on common misconceptions n pitfalls n dead ends to avoid
- wait but also, it’s not four noble truths at face value common translation/interpretation
- you dont have to believe life is suffering and we have to go full cessation or wtvr (although that may be true? we dont know . cf. nick cessation highest valence) but you should know that you have a lot of suffering and it can be removed and youre happy by default
- nick four noble truths
- nick happiness focus on suffering talk about it a lot, normal ppl avoid suffering