🏦 Bank of V&V: collection of unsorted articles on vitakka and vicāra

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🔗 Seinfeld jokes about jhana, vitakka and vicara
🔗 vitakka in first jhana synopsis roboman audio reading, 25min


Even animals use V&V💭 to communicate

V&V as vaci-sankhara, co-activities of speech, is not just an integral part of human oral tradition transmission, it’s a basic universal function of how intelligent animals communicate.
Chimpanzees, 🔗dogs intuitively use V&V.
🔗cats use V&V to save their human friends' lives. 

cockatiel doing vitakka, vicāra, vāca, gīta (thinking, pondering, speaking, singing) to a cat

SN 41.8 Nice essay on Vitakka and Vicara in Jain practice, and implications of that in SN 41.8

cow uses vitakka and vicara (thinking and evaluation) to ask man to help rescue her calf