A healthy relationship with healthy boundaries with an experienced meditation teacher/therapist is a great blessing and the best help when it comes to smoothing and facilitating the healing process.

Thank you for such a detailed analysis. So far as I see, though we're both, it appears, ultimately skeptical, we have our greatest psychological and existential preferences founded upon a nearly mutu…

You may be right. This reminds me of something I wrote a while back about what Nietzsche might have meant when he wrote:Let’s position ourselves, by contrast, at the end of this immense process, in t…

The ego is something necessary for survival and self-identification in the conventional, phenomenal world. The conception of the ego itself is something wholly conventional as it is simply a modern, …

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It may have been irresponsible. But my question was to ask this question. I had hoped that we could get to the bottom of this and show that it is not true.

Jeffrey, I'm not sure it's Thao and C_W who have combined the two texts the way you portray. I think you may have confused the two in your mind. This is not an accusation, it's a recognition of that …

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Yeah, it's been confusing, jumping back and forth between texts, not to mention all the threads. The author of the "Commentary" book was taught (as in: lectured about) those rituals by HHDL…

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