what is the difference between learned helplessness -> losing will to live vs non-resistance to pain -> enlightenment? because I've experienced the first one and it makes me quite distrustful wrt the second one
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Tweet · Dec 12, 2023learned helplessness & victimhood vs. wanting reality to be different than it is ?Tweet · Jun 6, 2024enlightenment is a trauma responseReply · Dec 12, 2023@indif4ent ah i should have explained better- tension between buddhist tanha takes on suffering vs learned helplessness takes saying actually go fix…Reply · Dec 16, 2022@lucid_com Do I have a problem in my mind or a problem in my environment though? I don’t buy the “you can endure any pain if you don’t flinch from it”