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The mapping of addictive and destructive cycles of attitude and behaviour are described, according to classical Buddhist psychology. The framework of “dependent origination/cessation” is employed to elucidate the details of the establishment of a subject/object relationship, the development of perception and feeling, and the subsequent arising of craving – this process then leading to psychological pain and cyclical addictive strategies consequent upon that. The means whereby such cycles of addiction can be ameliorated and abandoned are also described.
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Excerpted from Catastrophe/Apostrophe — Reflections on the Buddha’s Teaching of Dependent Origination/Cessation by Ajahn Amaro, Amaravati Publications, 2021.
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Amaro, A. The Wheel of Birth and Death. Mindfulness 12, 1920–1927 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01648-y
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