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"...free themselves from suffering by realizing the impermanence & interdependence of everything upon w/c their suffering depended, including & especially themselves. The Buddha called this the realization of shunyata, the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, & everything is therefore empty & this emptiness is the true nature of reality." — Nov 06, 2018 10:22AM
"...free themselves from suffering by realizing the impermanence & interdependence of everything upon w/c their suffering depended, including & especially themselves. The Buddha called this the realization of shunyata, the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, & everything is therefore empty & this emptiness is the true nature of reality." — Nov 06, 2018 10:22AM
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"“Never before in history, and never with such insidiousness, had genes been so effortlessly conflated with identity, identity with defectiveness, and defectiveness with extermination”" — Feb 15, 2017 09:15AM
"“Never before in history, and never with such insidiousness, had genes been so effortlessly conflated with identity, identity with defectiveness, and defectiveness with extermination”" — Feb 15, 2017 09:15AM
“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available”
― Timescape
― Timescape
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
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“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
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“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
― The Golden Apple
― The Golden Apple
“In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
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