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So I have gone from hungry ghost to human just by taking 1mg of aripiprazole every morning. 3mg of guanfacine took me from hell to hungry ghost. Hell to human just because I went to the doctor. Ridiculous. All that meditation and all I needed was a pill.

So the Buddha talked about multiple hells and heavens, multiple states of being, and how you have to travel between them in a kind of order. Only humans can become enlightened, for example. This makes sense from a purely brain-chemistry point of view. In order to reach dopamine-73 from d-24 you need to go through d-66. 

Hey I wonder if we could map out brain states with a kind of cartography. Coordinates based on each neurostransmistter. I am d5s5g6 right now (dopamine serotonin gaba). That might actually work, but you have to view the emotional plotting as weather, which is swirling around the electric landscape of neurology. One affects the other disproportionately, when working properly.

Anyway in this language the Buddha was mapping out the states of the brain. He would be like 'ok I'm going from d3s5g8 to d4s2g6 so let's track the route'. He was a scientist. He would be a neuroscience-focused psychologist nowadays.

Anyway what I'm saying for now is ... going to the doctors or the pub or eating chocolate or havin a wank. Or training to ironman world champs. You know. Whatever. It's all the fucking same. It's all because I wanna get the perfect-10. So do you. So do I. So do we all.

So you're born with a D7S7G7 and someone else is born with a D2S2G2. Fuck them, right.

This is the dark side of karma. This is where people say you are being punished for deeds in a past life / you are being punished by god / whatever. Fuck off.

You were born with a lucky hand and you criticise people who weren't for working hard to try to improve their situations and making mistakes along the way, while you suck your pina colada and finger your bumhole? fuck off.

So anyway that's what the Buddha said.

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