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Re: What is "monkey mind"?
As I get it, "monkey mind" is the fun stuff -- the stuff referred to by Buddhists as "deluded." It's the stuff that makes your heart soar today and crash and burn tomorrow. Such u… (View Post)
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Re: the 'perfect' way
(Quote) @how -- Have you ever felt the sometimes-blazing fires of disagreement when such glowing words are questioned. Eg. "Gautama was fully enlightened" is taken as a premise rather than … (View Post)1 -
Re: Buddhism In America
Welcome @jhodgeyj. Hope you find something useful here. It might ease the Buddhist load a bit if you simply found a practice -- meditation is useful -- and then practiced it. The vast virtue that can… (View Post)
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Re: What is "Original mind"?
(Quote) @SpinyNorman -- ... and thus, in answering, would provide you with an answer that would suffice ... and thus pacify your question and, as a sidelight, reduce Buddhism to an intellectually and… (View Post)
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Re: What is "Original mind"?
Sneeze just once and it'll clear up any confusion. On a more intellectual level, I was once asking my teacher what, precisely, Dharma was. I poked and prodded him, giving him little or no space for t… (View Post)
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