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Buddha’s Basilisk - by Owen - blissbrah's blog

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I no longer suffer from emotional experience. Dropping fetters four and five using this process has been the greatest upgrade to my well-being. Social anxiety is gone. There’s no reaction on top of emotion that naturally presents itself in the system. If fear comes up, there’s no contracting against that emotion, no internal violence created about that emotion. So the loop that creates social anxiety is gone. A lot of the identity structure that existed as the conditions that would create the initial nervousness in social situations is gone. So fear in social settings, with some women I find impressive and attractive, or where I’m supposed to present to an unfamiliar crowd doesn’t arise, or at least so far, since fetters four and five fell away. Previously tough emotions to feel, like fear, anger, and sadness seem much smaller now. Sadness can be there, but it doesn’t cause me to suffer. In hindsight, I was associating the suffering around the emotion, the resistance to the emotion, th

biggest meditation shift so far dropping fetters four and five Owen Aug 26, 2024 23 4 1 Share This post was written shortly after a big meditation shift. I would also recommend reading a longer-term reflection on how it affected my suffering here . On suffering I no longer suffer from emotional experience. Dropping fetters four and five using this process has been the greatest upgrade to my well-being. Social anxiety is gone. There’s no reaction on top of emotion that naturally presents itself in the system. If fear comes up, there’s no contracting against that emotion, no internal violence cr

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