Here’s a 60-min recorded livestream video (155MB .mp4 - Tip: tap-and-hold to “Download link”, or right click to “Save Link As…“).

Topics:

  • Emotions, Joy, the ratio of positivity to negativity in our day-to-day emotions, Social Media, 3 Characterisitcs, Dukkha, “How much more Joy could I experience, if I would be willing to just relax?”, realizing we can’t live out our lives worried, anxious and fearful all the time


Sutta References:

  • AN 9.12 - “With Residue Remaining”. The Buddha states nine types of person who will make an end of all suffering, despite still having “a rasidue remaining”. The Buddha has a rare confiding with Sāriputta, where he warns this teaching, reluctantly taught, could possibly lead to laziness if one aims any lower than perfecting any of morality, concentration, and wisdom:

    “These nine persons, passing away with a residue remaining, are freed from hell, the animal realm, and the sphere of afflicted spirits; freed from the plane of misery, the bad destination, the lower world. Sāriputta, I had not been disposed to give this Dhamma exposition to the bhikkhus, bhikkhunīs, male lay followers, and female lay followers. For what reason? I was concerned that on hearing this Dhamma exposition, they might take to the ways of heedlessness. However, I have spoken this Dhamma exposition for the purpose of answering your question.”

Pāḷi References:

  • dukkha - uncomfortable; unpleasant; painful; discomfort; suffering; unease; unpleasantness; something unsatisfactory; trouble; a bummer; stress

Other References:

  • “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.”

  • Mark Zuckerberg/Meta/Facebook admits that only 17% of a Facebook feed is content from their friends and family. The other 83% would presumably be the algorithm choosing what to show the user, rather than the posted content from those whom the user wishes to follow. Zuckerberg further says “Social Media is Over”:

    “Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.”

  • Aphorism from Arabic culture: “Close the door that brings in the wind and relax”

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