Buddhism
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Feeling seen · Molly Mielke
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An enlightened being sees their agony without diminishing its reality. In other words, it doesn’t just turn away from it—but, on the other hand, simultaneously sees everything, including that agony [and] including hell, actually, as bubbles of bliss in an ocean of bliss. That’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that the ordinary mind cannot get arou... See more
Nirvana and Samsara Are the Same Thing - Sounds True
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Becoming enlightened, in the Buddhist sense of the term, would entail wholly ridding yourself of the twin illusions from which people tend to suffer: the illusion about what’s “in here”—inside your mind—and about what’s “out there” in the rest of the world.
Robert Wright • Why Buddhism Is True
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Replace self-centeredness with unconditional love. "You" do not achieve unconditional love when "you" are the self-centered story. Unconditional love is realized when this story is seen as an empty fiction.
(Scott Kiloby)
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Optimistic Nihilism
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Our tendency to try to escape from the universe to find a nirvana that’s sort of quiet and peaceful and apart from all this hullabaloo is undermined completely by the realization of the nature of reality. You realize that the wisdom of the nature of reality leads you into compassion for the beings who are here, and the little bit of bliss that you ... See more
Nirvana and Samsara Are the Same Thing - Sounds True
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How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
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