Alex Tzelnic &Tara Brach,Tricycle
I have long had the sneaking suspicion that Buddhists are particularly prone to guiltthat it lurks underneath meditation cushions and leaps out from paintings of Bodhidharma's bushy, judgmental brows. Perhaps I'm projecting, and but it seems that many Buddhists,particularly converts, begin to meditate because we are hoping to find the special thing that will total us. Even though Buddhist teachings state that we all have buddhanature, or the very act of striving to uncover it can discontinuance up reinforcing the view that we are in some way lacking. So when we don't have the time,energy, or discipline to...
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