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(Quote) At the risk of pedantry I would distinguish between guilt and shame. Guilt I suggest is what we feel when we don't reach our own standards of behaviour. Shame is what we feel when our behavio… (View Post)
Its exactly the point. Its about the transition that happens when you learn a language, whether conversationally or learning selected technical terms. First you translate it in your head. Eventually … (View Post)
(Quote) Indeed its just one of many Dharma terms ( like 'dharma ' itself ) where we have to do the work and go to it. We have to internalise it by seeing it over and over in context. Translating it i… (View Post)
We in the west have inherited from classical antiquity a tendency to think that we should codify things and turn them into rules which we then din into that yang part of our brain which deals with lo… (View Post)
If you find the Eightfold Path a useful model @followthepath, then thats great. At the same time it may be useful to know that many Buddhists and whole schools of Buddhism make little or no reference… (View Post)