The mind which responds with conditioned, automatic likes and dislikes is dominated by reactive pleasure and pain. Such a mind is at the mercy of its environment and is said to be turbulent, hard to control and concentrate, inconstant in purpose and direction, and insensitive in perception and insight. With training, the conditioned reactivity of strong affective responses is reduced and the mind gradually becomes less reactive and more calm. As such, it becomes more easy to control and remains unperturbed in the face of an increasingly broad range of experience. Finally, it is said to be able to encompass all experiences and to allow "the one thousand beatific and one thousand horrible visions" to pass before it without disturbance. Of such a mind, it is said that "the eight vicissitudes,"
"Pleasure-pain
praise and blame
fame and shame
loss and gain
are all the same."