Three ennobling provocations

May reduce it to three provocations


 * realize your agency is threatened by shuttering
 * shuttering is caused by your mental machinery going against you
 * you can escape shuttering by the ninefold vaccine

Main
Four ennobling provocations


 * Realize that all your life is threatened with a lack of agency (dukkha/spiralling/self destruction)
 * Spiralling is caused by reciprocal narrowing (suffering is caused by desire)
 * You can use the same machinery to anagogically ascend
 * You can use a counteractive dynamical system against it (Counter-Spiralling/Firmlaw)

New Formulation
This is the new formulation


 * 1) Realize all your life is threatened by a loss of agency
 * 2) Loss of agency is caused by the Nine plagues
 * 3) You can use the same machinery to overcome the Nine  plagues
 * 4) You can use the Ninefold Vaccine to overcome the Nine Plagues

Traditional formulation
This is the traditional formulation which is problematic for several reasons


 * dukkha (suffering, incapable of satisfying, painful) is an innate characteristic of existence in the realm of samsara;
 * samudaya (origin, arising, combination; 'cause'): together with dukkha arises taṇhā ("craving, desire or attachment, lit. "thirst"). While tanha is traditionally interpreted in western languages as the 'cause' of dukkha, tanha can also be seen as the factor tying us to dukkha, or as a response to dukkha, trying to escape it;
 * nirodha (cessation, ending, confinement): dukkha can be ended or contained by the renouncement or letting go of this taṇhā;  the confinement of tanha releases the excessive bind of dukkha;
 * magga (path, Noble Eightfold Path) is the path leading to the confinement of tanha and dukkha.

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