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Beginner's Guide to The East
(Naskaristana 2758-2760)
Even when the west does embrace the east, it ends up drawing from superstitious fringes, and rebrands it as self awareness and spirituality - thus catholic guilt gets replaced with chakra cleansing, and christian afterlife is substituted with karmic justice -
for once in your life grow the brain and backbone to look at life as a living being, not as shape shifting vegetable, trading one gullibility for another, one fanaticism for another, o
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― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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One of the most radical shifts we can make is from understanding waking up as an event to seeing awakened life as the expression of beneficial qualities - generosity, patience, virtue, honesty, wisdom, lovingkindness, enthusiasm, equanimity - cultivated in our relationships with other. Here, awakening is measured not by the depth of our insight but based on our behavior: how we act and interact with each other and the world.
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― A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism
― A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism
