Episode 132: Eight Everyday Preoccupations

Episode 132: Eight Everyday Preoccupations

June 9, 2026 · 9 min

About this episode

This episode discusses the eight everyday preoccupations that distract us from direct experiences and contribute to a reactive way of living.

[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 ...

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