Tag: buddhism
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you blues
Hit the bottom and bounce back up. The lowest low is only a beginning. These are the words many people said to me. But in a crowd you lose humanity. Scared of the future that comes from the past. When I think back I see that this could never last. -you blues by Juliana Hatfield…
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way of life
To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. -Dogen Zenji Sometimes I wish I could believe in the Christianity thing. There is one Buddhist ‘place’ around here…but only ONE. It seems excellent. In…
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A truthful heart
killing millions of people is indeed on a different scale from what most of us have done in this lifetime; however, just as when you work on a small scale you spend 24 hours on that scale, so when you work on a big scale you still have the same 24 hours, but you’ve got…
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destruction of the self
All this trying to/wanting to find myself is BS. The only way to eliminate suffering is to actually recognize the experience of a self as a misconception, which we do by proving directly to ourselves that there is no such personal self. We must actually realise this. Once we do, then automatically the misconception of…
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i’m not okay
Many people who approach the practice of Buddhism are willing to sacrifice one or two hours of their day in order to perform some ritual practice or engage in meditation. Time is relatively easy to give up, even though their life may be very busy. But, they are not willing to change anything of their…
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