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Re: Good news
Listened to an interview with the author and YouTuber John Green. He made the point that good news accumulates slowly, while bad news happens all at once. He then said that the front page story for t… (View Post)
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Re: The space between self esteem and self compassion
(Quote) Ditto with what I said to @Lionduck how the terms are defined can be moved around. I think the context she, and myself, are coming from is there was a big self esteem movement in the 80s and … (View Post)
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Re: Sitting with uncertainty
I thought about making a new thread, but I think this fits well here. In an interview with a couple Theravadin monks one of them mentioned MN 95, the Canki sutta. In it the Buddha talks about how we … (View Post)
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Re: Bodhisattvas?
I see them as an ideal to work towards even if practically its out of reach for us. I think its also important to understand what a bodhisattva is. Its more than a very compassionate person, there is… (View Post)1 -
Sitting with uncertainty
Just a little reflection. The idea of sitting with uncertainty in Buddhism is a pretty central tenet. From the Buddha refusing to answer certain metaphysical questions on the ground that they're unpr… (View Post)1