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@David -- "Spreading the dharma" has always left me a bit flummoxed: How would anyone go about spreading what they couldn't escape in the first place? PS. Reminds me a bit of that Zen scoun… (View Post)
At the risk of repeating.... I once asked my teacher -- Kyudo Nakagawa -- what role hope and belief played in Zen practice. He said, "For the first four or five years [of practice] hope and beli… (View Post)
Among the addictions encountered along the way, there is the addiction to worry and the half-hidden conviction that worries will make me a better person. Who would I be without my worries? It's a gre… (View Post)
Just as a footnote, I like to remember that "materialism" is crediting things with a material and abiding nature. "Materialism" is not the same as "acquisitiveness" whic… (View Post)