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Re: Self Esteem
Yes, there is definitely a sense of letting go implicit even in the Mahanama sutta, in that it's saying "What you think of yourself and your surroundings is just a fabrication, so you may as wel… (View Post)
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Re: Was Chogyam Trungpa a Bodhisattva?
What is the value of a practice which leaves the practitioner an awful person? (View Post)
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Re: what are the difference between mahayana and theravada?
I've done both Zen (Rinzai and Soto) and Kagyu. They all give concentration and the methods for fostering it relatively short shrift. The difference for me has been that discernment is treated more a… (View Post)
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Re: Was Chogyam Trungpa a Bodhisattva?
It's not obvious why this is a useful question. If he was a Bodhisattva, what's going to change about your life? If he wasn't, what's going to change? (View Post)
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Re: I'm really stuck on the truth of impermanence ....
Impermanence, suffering, non-self are tools for dismantling attachment to defiled states of mind. From this perspective, they are perceptions to adopt with respect to the objects of greed, aversion a… (View Post)
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