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Re: Why aren't you enlightened?
What makes you think we aren't? (View Post)
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Re: Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison
They say "ignorance is bliss", and perhaps it is if you want to shut yourself off from reality. But the point of Buddhist practice is to wake up. That means facing up to unpleasant truths y… (View Post)
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Re: Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison
The heavy sentence is intended to deter any other whistle blowers out there tempted to spill the beans and embarrass their political masters abroad. Governments of every political persuasion do not w… (View Post)2 -
Re: Signs you're arguing a person, not discussing a topic
I read somewhere recently that the reason we can get so upset by a different opinion is that we haven't truly thought out our own and because we fear that our own cherished opinion might be wrong we … (View Post)
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Re: Dealing with negative mind chatter.
The chatter in itself is harmless so long as you let it go and don't obsess over a particular train of thought. This is harder to do than it sounds because we develop habits over many years which are… (View Post)
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