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genkaku Veteran
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- genkaku
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- Northampton, Mass. U.S.A.
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Re: The mystery of @Lobster's origins revealed!
@karasti -- Here you go. I found it carefully crafted... But I dislike artful creations about which the first and perhaps most heart-felt words out of an onlooker's mouth might be, "I can explai… (View Post)
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Re: Lost in the weeds and struggling – looking for guidance
Welcome @EonTrinity . Hope you find something useful here. Consider, as suggested above, some counseling. Death is probably the bedrock bogeyman of all religious/spiritual persuasions, but it's stran… (View Post)
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Re: Belief
At the risk of repeating... I once asked my Zen teacher what role belief and hope played in Zen practice. He said, "For the first four or five years [of practice] belief and hope are necessary.&… (View Post)
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Re: Going to a Buddhist center for the first time - could use advice
Good for you, @Captain_America: You will learn more by actually going to a center than you ever learned from a book or judicious lecture. Just relax and see what happens. You don't need to be smart o… (View Post)
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Re: Self Realization
* I wouldn't like to get into a pissing contest about it, but I think there is probably a different meaning to "self-realization" from a psychological and spiritual points of view. In psych… (View Post)
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