🪷 Degrees of Inner Suffering

Keep off the exponents!

Here I am sharing a schema that my friend and I use to talk about types of internal suffering.

First-degree suffering
   ("Ow, this hurts!")

gets squared by stories
   ("This will wreck my life!")

and cubed by cruelty.
   ("It's all my fault!")

May I keep my mind back
  from those exponents of pain.
On the first, beginner level
   may it remain.

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