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I hear you-- Zen does feel a bit cold and dry at times, as the words like "compassion", "love" and "kindness" aren't regularly part of the teaching vocabulary. But in th… (View Post)
Regarding whether Buddha was patriarchal...we will never really know. The man died over two thousand years ago. All we know is what someone else wrote down off what yet someone else said about him, s… (View Post)
The question is exactly equivalent to the classic "Why does God allow evil to happen". Alas, the only sensible answer that I see is that there exists no external agent or force that doles o… (View Post)
As someone who has struggled with addictive behaviors I am relieved to hear this. Whenever I strive for "sobriety" the result is always a meh-- even when achieved it feels like it just wasn… (View Post)