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Re: Meditation Needed to become Buddhist?
When anyone has a problem -- as, let's say, suffering or uncertainty or unsatisfactoriness -- what is the first thing they do? Buddhists and non-Buddhists do precisely the same thing: When you have a… (View Post)
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Re: Trying too little? Trying too hard?
(Quote) @nakazcid -- Does the one who knows you have made no progress fail to progress? My guess is that s/he is pretty sure of him-/herself and has progressed nicely. Patience, courage and doubt are… (View Post)
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Re: Special Mantra?
(Quote) I don't advocate masochism, but a practice that is without pain strikes me as unlikely. As the slick are wont to say, "no pain, no gain." What they seem to forget in their infinite … (View Post)
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Re: Tearing up the sutras.
I always liked the old guys in Zen, the pedal-to-the-metal ball-busters. The first time I read Huang Po, he scared the crap out of me. When I finished the book, the first thing I did was to start rea… (View Post)
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Re: We are lucky
I wonder which is more fruitful -- to indulge in vivid imaginings and tales of other birth scenarios or 'karmic potential' or some such ... or to practice whatever practice is chosen with as much ded… (View Post)
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