Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts! A couple of thoughts in response:
I suspect that the principles you describe around the “experience of tanha” go well beyond human or even mammalian psychology.
That’s how I see it too. Buddhism says tanha is experienced by all non-enlightened beings, which probably includes some unicellular organisms. If I recall correctly, some active inference folk I’ve brainstormed with consider tanha a component of any self-evidencing process with counterfactual depth.
Forgiveness (non-judgment?) may then need a clear definition: are you talking about a person’s ability not to seek “tanha-originating revenge,” while still being able to act out of caring self-protection?
Yes, this pretty much aligns exactly with how I think about forgiveness!
Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts! A couple of thoughts in response:
That’s how I see it too. Buddhism says tanha is experienced by all non-enlightened beings, which probably includes some unicellular organisms. If I recall correctly, some active inference folk I’ve brainstormed with consider tanha a component of any self-evidencing process with counterfactual depth.
Yes, this pretty much aligns exactly with how I think about forgiveness!