Causality
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The influence of an event on subsequent events.
Cognizance
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Consciousness of an object.
Comfort
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Comfort is not feeling bad. Whatever one feels bad about must be felt as unpleasant. Whatever one feels good about must be felt as not unpleasant.
It should be noted, however, that it is possible to appear to feel good about something unpleasant, but in this case, one doesn’t actually feel the displeasure significantly. Instead, they feel good about a not unpleasant perception about that displeasure.
So ultimately, happiness is not feeling displeasure beyond a threshold.
Examples
Emotions with low Discomfort:
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Death
Content/Glossary/Death.md
The ending of an existence, potentially ushering in a new one.
Examples
- The clinical death of a human being along with the irreversible ending of related conscious experience.
Desire
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The nominal application of desire is the escape from Discomfort, internal or external.
Discomfort
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Unpleasant personally affective experience.
Two kinds of discomfort:
- One kind that actually sucks
- Another that one actually enjoys, e.g. productive work
The discomfort here refers only to the first kind. The second would in fact be categorized as Comfort.
Existence
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If one doesn’t feel (not even thoughts), how can they exist? And yet, there can be consciousness without feeling.
Experience
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Cognizance which feels pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.
Feeling
Content/Glossary/Feeling.md
The mental act of feeling an experience.
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- Feeling
- Pleasure, displeasure, or neutralness.
Happiness
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Happiness is not feeling bad. Whatever one feels bad about must be felt as unpleasant. Whatever one feels good about must be felt as not unpleasant.
So ultimately, happiness is not feeling displeasure beyond a threshold.
Examples
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Information
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An object of cognizance serving as a reference for volition.
Stress
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- Perceptions of identity in relation to displeasure
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- Any aquisition of displeasure
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Stress
Equivalent to the Theravada noun dukkha.
Threshold
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The subjective level of feeling beyond which is a breach in happiness. In other words, the the point above which displeasure makes one feel bad.
Volition
Content/Glossary/Volition.md
Any deliberate action by body, speech, or mind.
Suffering
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- Suffering
- Acquisition of displeasure beyond a threshold.
Acquisition
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- Acquisition
- The egoic uptake of feeling due to thirst.
Thirst
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- Thirst
- Attraction and aversion to feeling.
Power
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Power
Conditions that prevent stress from arising, or that attenuate it after it has already arisen by satisfying its cause. For example, the ability to satisfy a desire.
Purity
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Purity
The absence of the cause of stress.
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For fuller discussions of these terms, see feeling, stress, happiness, and volition. The fundamental problem explains how they fit together.
The definition of happiness is clarified in the current resolution alongside the passage allowing happiness with intense pain.
The terminology clarification favors happiness and unhappiness over “stress” as a quantitative description and broadens happiness beyond personal uptake of pleasure.