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Tibetan Buddhism
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Teaching the Dharma to people who are skilled in dry intellectual speculations and cling to mere words of sophistry will result in slandering the Dharma. By slandering the Dharma the slanderer will accumulate evil karma, and you yourself, by being angry, will also gather misdeeds. Thus both teacher and recipient will gather evil karma through the Dharma. There is no need for that.
Do not make the profound instructions into a sales item but practice with perseverance in remote places and mingle
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― Dakini Teachings: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
― Dakini Teachings: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
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The initial function of spirituality emerged from questioning the human condition and also from deep experiences of wonder. The word religion itself, initially meaning to “reconnect,” seems to have come from direct experiences of something larger than just a set of fixed ideas. It marked a return to something essential that we just failed to recognize in the myopia of our everyday lives. How curious that we turn experiences of awe into dogmas and stagnant ideas. That we have come to associate fa
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― The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt
― The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt
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