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An antidote in Mahayana is wanting all beings to be happy above oneself. How often do you focus loving kindness towards Trump? He only wishes to be happy and pain free. Unfortunately he has a lot of habits and conditioning (karma) to make him loathe-some by many spiritual and non-spiritual ppl. I find myself reactively wanting to see him punished.

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Buddhism has an explanation for why these thoughts are soothing. It comes down to thinking provides a level of control and an appearance of a illusion you feel in control of. But alas this is illusion. The mind simply likes thinking. In fact Buddhists off camera will say your addicted to thinking. I believe this will be shown to be true. The default mode network may be the “addiction to thinking.”

If you like Michael Lewis (the big short, moneyball, etc) try his favorite novel: The Confederacy of Dunces. The main character is an antihero. This can bother some people. The story about the book which is usually in the prelude is interesting and tragic. Really good fiction.