We can be physically in this world, but mentally trapped in a world of stories. When we get attached to stories in our mind, we drift away from reality. It’s through this drifting that Fear surfaces. The mind keeps building the story, adding...
Topics: attachment, Buddhism/Zen, fear, Meditation, nirvana, psychology, story

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We can be physically in this world, but mentally trapped in a world of stories. When we get attached to stories in our mind, we drift away from reality. It’s through this drifting that Fear surfaces. The mind keeps building the story, adding...
Topics: attachment, Buddhism/Zen, fear, Meditation, nirvana, psychology, story

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The current global economic crisis is easily understood through a Buddhist framework. The institutions saw the world as self and other. They saw, and see, it as something to “win”. They focused on Profits and the Trickle Down Theory of...
Topics: Buddhism/Zen, buddhist, compassion, crisis, economic, Interconnectedness, real world, response

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The current global economic crisis is easily understood through a Buddhist framework. The institutions saw the world as self and other. They saw, and see, it as something to “win”. They focused on Profits and the Trickle Down Theory of...
Topics: Buddhism/Zen, buddhist, compassion, crisis, economic, Interconnectedness, real world, response

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And what, monks, is the Middle Way realized by the Thus-Come-One, which gives vision and understanding, which leads to calm, penetration, enlightenment, to Nirvana? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path, namely: Right View, Right Intention, Right...
Topics: 8 fold path, buddha space, Buddhism/Zen, gary, nirvana, the middle way

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