“Dwell on the things of the senses and attachment is born; from attachment comes desire, and from desire, anger. From anger comes confusion, from confusion a wandering memory; memory gone, the mind is lost, and the mind lost, the person is lost.”

This is a map of a spiral, drawn about two thousand years before the doomscroll. Dwell on a thing and attachment forms; attachment sharpens into wanting; wanting denied heats into anger, and from there the night unravels step by step.

A map is useful because every stair is an exit. The earlier you notice the circling, the cheaper it is to step off, and noticing is the whole skill.