Buddhist practice can be seen as a re-weighting of the terms in the human (non-optimal) implementation of the Buddha equation.
Mental health
The Buddha equation
There is some deep wisdom popping out from Jensen’s inequality.
A humanistic world through a mechanistic world-view
A mechanical world-view without belief in free will leads to a more humanistic world.
Losing ourselves
Equipped with a neolithic brain architecture, legacy brain software, and an old repertoire of subjective experiences we don’t see the world as it is but in a way that has ensured our survival and reproduction over the milennia. This has been all good up until now.