Recorded at BUBS - Bandar Utama Buddhist Society, Malaysia, given to an audience of about 50, here are the audio-only recordings (Tip: tap and hold to “Download link”, or right click to “Save Link As…“).

Topics:

  • emotions, ratio of positive to negative, most common emotions, sentiment of Social Media, beware Psychopaths on Social Media, findings of psychology studies, suffering, dukkha, anicca, not-self

  • Downloadable 43-minute 30MB .mp3 Dhamma Talk


  • Pali Reference:

    • pīti: delight; heartfelt joy; pleasure; feeling of love

Other References:

  • Psychology study “Emotions in Everyday Life” - a psychology study with interesting findings about how common various emotionas are, demographically:

    “We developed a smartphone application that monitored real-time emotions of an exceptionally large (N = 11,000+) and heterogeneous participants sample. People’s everyday life seems profoundly emotional: participants experienced at least one emotion 90% of the time. The most frequent emotion was joy, followed by love and anxiety. People experienced positive emotions 2.5 times more often than negative emotions, but also experienced positive and negative emotions simultaneously relatively frequently.”

  • Psychology study “People high in psychopathy and low in cognitive ability are the most politically active online, study finds”

    The researchers conducted a large-scale survey in June 2022 using data from over 8,000 participants in eight countries: the United States, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. They used quota sampling to match national distributions of age and gender, and the survey was administered in local languages where appropriate. Participants completed validated questionnaires assessing psychopathy, narcissism, fear of missing out (FoMO), and cognitive ability.

    Online political participation was measured by asking how often participants engaged in six different online political activities (such as commenting on political posts or sharing political content) over the past year. Psychopathy and narcissism were assessed using a short version of the Dark Triad scale. FoMO was measured through a series of questions asking about anxiety related to missing out on others’ experiences. Cognitive ability was assessed using the Wordsum test, a vocabulary-based measure often used as a proxy for general intelligence.

  • Downloadable 18-minute 12MB .mp3 Q & A


  • Pali References:

    • ātāpī: avid; ardent; zealous; with continuous effort

    • chanda: consent; agreement; approval; interest (in); self-interest (in); desire (for); wish (for); intention (to); impulse

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