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Peg Syverson
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Your Buddha nature
When we say “you are perfect just as you are,” we do not mean perfect as in “ideal” or “exemplary,” or even “awakened.” We mean you are the perfect expression of all the causes and conditions that brought you into being and that sustain your present existence. Everything that you need is already available to you, already within you. You lack nothing whatsoever and you are becoming.
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Appamada is not just the occasional mindful thought or attentive state of mind, it’s actually a commitment to being attentive. It’s more than just a meditative state of mind, it’s more than just being mindful. It has to do with that primary ethical or moral orientation we have in life, with which we bring into being whatever activity we’re engaged in. Whether in formal meditation, in our interactions with other people, in our social concerns, or in our political choices, it’s the energetic cherishing of what we regard as good.
—Stephen Batchelor
—Stephen Batchelor
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The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the way we perceive the world
January 7, 2010 at 6:30pm to May 27, 2010 at 8pm – Appamada
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empty shelves and the empty everything.
For me, this photo evokes loneliness. I really can't get
a good feeling about it.
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