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This takes many forms.
One track is to notice the extent to which the patterns of
conditioning we acquire, through learned behaviors, conditioned
responses, or cultural osmosis, are for the most part built upon
certain illusions or even delusions. Foremost of these are our
remarkably robust habit of taking what is impermanent and subject to
change to be stable or reliable; believing that the satisfaction or
gratification of desires is sustainable for longer than a few moments
when, because of the former point, it is not; and projecting again and
again onto the field of experience the notion of a person or agent that
owns, controls, or consists of what is happening. In other words, we
continuously delude ourselves into believing that we can hold onto
what we want and get rid of what we don’t want, despite considerable
evidence to the contrary. And on top of this, we delude ourselves into
believing that a stable, independen B( Ğ(