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TNH is ok and I've learned a few things from his books and videos and if huggy Buddhism is what you need @lobster, it's what you'll get and if a metta slap with the Zen masters awakening stick is wha… (View Post)
Sometimes it's very real and intense pain! to paraphrase that wily old Zen fox Jundo Cohen when I was studying with him sometimes it's a bucket of blood, sh*t and offal in the face if that's what you… (View Post)
One thing I've learned is as others have said is that everything and anything can be your teacher, including the blandishments of the illusion of the abiding ego entity. Look with the right kind of e… (View Post)
I'd agree with @pegembara, all the pain of the world comes from belief in the Sakkaya-ditthi and the belief that it's thoguhts and feelings are the true "self". I was sitting the other nigh… (View Post)
Its not the hatred or anger and desire that is the problem, if they are present in the sakkaya-ditthi then they are there its attaching to them and believing they belong to you that is, let them be a… (View Post)