Episode 132: Eight Everyday Preoccupations

[This episode originally aired on August 1, 2023] The eight everyday preoccupations are eight ways we occupy our minds in order to avoid experiencing things directly • they act as a kind of a central filtering mechanism, separating out the things that feed our ego from the things that challenge it • because of this filtering mechanism, we get jerked around into a very reactive way of living and thinking • all of our thoughts and actions curve inwardly to a ...