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Dedicating the merit in my experience predisposes towards having compassion as a default mindset. You may not need to that @Dakini. But I certainly do. I am not naturally patient with other people. I… (View Post)
It may be @vinlyn that what the Japanese call tariki and jiriki " Other power" and "Self Power" are not two in reality...that there is one continuum. And that they represent diffe… (View Post)
The result in someone like Ajahn Chah who did not try to be good..but worked hard for many years to be free from aversion and ill will was that he was spontaneously " good." He projected an… (View Post)
It has @federica but it bears repeating I think, that what is almost certainly a majority of the world's Buddhists believe in " Other Power" not self power. This can be a paradox for we wes… (View Post)
As I said @Simon, from a Buddhist perspective the issue isn't your experience, its your subsequent interpretation of it. I bet when you were having the experience you weren't think of "oneness&q… (View Post)