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There are many wonderful spiritual texts. This is blather. Most primates experience loneliness because, in the wild, they can't survive long alone, much less br
by Nomentatus 10y ago
There are many wonderful spiritual texts. This is blather. Most primates experience loneliness because, in the wild, they can't survive long alone, much less breed. The best you can say for this text is that it gives the readers extra heads, a pejorative Zen phrase meaning that it provides readers with an intellectual illusion of understanding that will delay genuine understanding even if they do meditate.
I'm very willing to assent to the idea that spiritual masters experience less loneliness, but it ain't 'cause they read this sort of pap.
- mixermf 10y ago> I'm very willing to assent to the idea that spiritual masters experience less loneliness Chogyam Trunpga, founder of the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, said "Egolessness is a concept, a philosophy, but loneliness is a reality that you experience. A feeling of loneliness is part of the journey. As for me, I feel that way constantly, and I think it's a very healthy feeling, a very real feeling." https://books.google.com/books?id=9QHEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT214&lpg=PT214&dq=Egolessness+is+a+concept,+a+philosophy,+but+loneliness+is+a+reality+that+you+experience&source=bl&ots=DPsPMrssWB&sig=druXaPalHAZmdd9Evc1GjajhHxY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk6YWW9I7SAhWHqFQKHQqVDxUQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=9QHEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT214&lpg=...
- Nomentatus 10y agoI should probably said less acutely or differently, Zen speaks of a kind of wistfulness-about-the-world that pervades the enlightened (word.)