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- Northampton, Mass. U.S.A.
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Re: Difficulty Going to Classes
When it came to Buddhist practice, my Zen teacher once suggested to me: "Take care of your family." (View Post)
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Re: The Ego
As someone once observed, "Without ego, nothing gets done." To which I am inclined to add, "With ego, what is accomplished turns out to be flawed." (View Post)
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Re: Treating the buddha as a philospher?
The Hindu Vedantist Swami Vivekananda got it right: "The mind [he was referring to intellect] is a good servant and a poor master." Yes, it's scary. But that doesn't mean it's not true. (View Post)
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Re: No birth, no death; no coming, no going; no same, no different; no being, no non-being.
Besides missing the mark, too many no's is every bit as flummoxed as the yes's that preceded them. Ask any daisy or sneeze. (View Post)1 -
Re: Treating the buddha as a philospher?
@Carameltail -- And your feeling about all this is??? Buddhism laced in philosophy strikes me as being a bit like sex using a condom: It's kinda-sorta like unprotected sex but not much comes of it. O… (View Post)
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