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BhanteLucky·Alternative lifestyle person in the South Island of New Zealand·Veteran
There was a sutta from the Pali Canon where the Buddha told a story about a female disciple who became a once-returner, and later something bad happened and she got depressed or just sad for some rea… (View Post)
Interestingly, the Buddha said that cultivating Buddha Nature and cultivating Emptiness, is a baaad idea. I don't know why. Maybe it sets up some paradox in the mind, which can do actual damage. He s… (View Post)
@music, I never used to be able to understand Emptiness. I thought it was a dumb and impossible idea that Buddhists just talked about. How can there be no self, how can everything be empty!! It obvio… (View Post)
How about if science marches on, and finds that meditation is the best thing for humans, and that other parts of Buddhism are totally in line with science, and the Buddha was some old-school scientis… (View Post)