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Years ago, I studied shamanism with a Lakota medicine woman. She said that the difference between science and shamanism is that a shaman doesn’t care how something works, only that it does. Science often doesn’t believe something works until it understands how.

The Buddhist term for wholesome desire is chanda. Chanda is desire that arises from a place of non-tension. It often feels like a relaxed current, but can sometime be strong, channeled, like a great benevolent wave surging outward – and yet it is unattached to outcome. Intensify this style of desire while releasing craving & clinging, and genius... See more