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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
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We in the West regard the universe as a creation of God; like an invention or a product. After he created the universe, God set himself to oversee it and manage it. We see God as our boss. He created the universe, he is present in it, he manages every part of it, but he is still separate from it. It's like he installed video cameras all over the universe, so he can see everything that happens, and he can cause this or that to happen, but he is not a part of what happens. The Eastern view is very
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― Philosophy For The Serious Heretic: The Limitations of Belief and the Derivation of Natural Moral Principles
― Philosophy For The Serious Heretic: The Limitations of Belief and the Derivation of Natural Moral Principles