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Re: Does Buddhism only work for low-level suffering?
Any time there is a desire to get rid of something or escape from something or change one thing into another ... all this and more like it is simply a reminder to practice. This -- this moment, this … (View Post)
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Re: How do you get back "on the wagon"?
@cinorjer is on-target. Look at it this way, if you never screwed the pooch, what usefulness or meaning could Buddhism possibly have? If you want to be a lock-step saint, find a nice, corrupt cult an… (View Post)
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Re: Strange experience
My sense is that the surprise/delight/joy/tears/fear that rise up in the presence of an ah-ha moment -- the contrast to what has come before and the longing to prolong this sense of clarity -- is not… (View Post)
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Re: Meditation instruction.
^^^ Alternatively, the old saying, "Understanding is knowing to get out of the way of an on-coming bus; practice is for the bus you didn't see coming." (View Post)
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Re: Meditation instruction.
My first instruction, if it can be called that, came after reading perhaps 500,000 pages of spiritual stuff (mostly Hindu oriented) and one day realizing as if I had put my fingers in a light socket,… (View Post)
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