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Re: Making peace with a dead parent
OP, you can write letters to your deceased parent. If you're feeling the pain of the difficult relationship, pour that pain onto the page. Tell her all about it. Write and write until there are no mo… (View Post)
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Re: How to know whether am I still on the spiritual path?
There are many ways to practice, OP, and they don't require outward trappings of "spiritual practice", like meditating, listening to spiritual programming, or reading about spirituality. On… (View Post)
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Re: The spiritual path
Well, if some Western Buddhists don't consider Buddhism to be a religion, and there's no deity/deities, what exactly about it is "spiritual"? I've never really thought of it as a spiritual … (View Post)
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NY Times: Dalai Lama says institution of DL is "backward". "I proudly, voluntarily ENDED [it]!"
Yet another thread on the topic: will the DL choose to reincarnate, or not? It seems that more recently, since announcing years ago that he might not, and thus sending the Chinese authorities into a … (View Post)
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Re: Patronage of Buddhism in the west
The Buddha faced the same problem in financing his communities. He was constantly fund-raising, approaching wealthy benefactors. He didn't demand money of his monks, students or other humble benefici… (View Post)
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