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• Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
• While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a…
• Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting…
• When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are…
• Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about…
• If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…
• To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really…
• To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
• In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our…
• The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
• Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
• We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have…

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