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Re: Personal responsibility & Compassion
This might be relevant: The Motivating Power of Self-Compassion by Kristin NeffResearch shows that self-critics are much more likely to be anxious and depressed -- not exactly get-up-and-go mindsets.… (View Post)
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Re: Personal responsibility & Compassion
There is a traditional phrase for balance (upekkha) -- the last of the four brahmaviharas -- as there is for metta, karuna, and mudita. It goes: "'I am the determiner of my actions (kamma), heir… (View Post)
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Re: No problems?
Eckhart Tolle gets a bum rap around these parts, but I think he expresses many of the concepts we work with in Buddhism (and share with Advaita Vedanta and mysticism) quite beautifully. This is from … (View Post)
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Re: Any books that help over coming anti social behavior? (I find it hard talking/dealing with people)
(Quote) This is a good point. I believe that book is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is something that has helped me quite a lot in dealing with my own depression and anxiety.… (View Post)1 -
Re: Buddhism And Science
I'm with @fivebells. The Buddha wasn't really interested in ontological reality in the sense that he wasn't interested in making claims about "the nature of reality" but rather human experi… (View Post)
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