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Alex Veteran
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- Alex
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Re: Thich Nhat Hanh's Buddhism
@federica I think all of the hymn sheets within ‘Buddhism’ are different.......TNH still holds a note rather superbly though.......and he’s no less authentic. (View Post)
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Re: The precepts, love and the positive form
Extreme example, but I can now see it’s needed...... What’s the point saying to Jesus “Jesus, don’t kill, steal, have illicit sex, tell lies or take drugs”. He’s never going to do any of those things… (View Post)
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Re: The precepts, love and the positive form
@federica My read is that he is effectively saying that the 5 precepts are reactive, but don’t cover proactivity and positive actions, which is what the ‘positive’ precepts do. He is right. That’s tr… (View Post)
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Re: Thich Nhat Hanh's Buddhism
Singing songs and having tea in the garden sounds rather Zen to me 🙏 There’s joy for sure. And simplicity. Perhaps they’re more in tune than we might give them credit for........ (View Post)4 -
Re: Thich Nhat Hanh's Buddhism
I’m an advocate of what TNH has brought to the table. Essentially, he has taken complex and often (for the lay Westerner) impenetrable doctrine and transmitted it in a fashion that is simple and as a… (View Post)
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