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Category Archives: Desire
Watching a doubtful mind
My visit to Abhayagiri Monastery last week – and the 13-hour drive to and from – is in the past. So too is the feeling that overcame me shortly after arriving early Friday evening. The Buddha speaks of three kinds of feeling: pleasant, unpleasant and neither pleasant nor unpleasant. What I experienced during the initial [...]
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Contented and easily satisfied
Yesterday an acquaintance tried to convince me of the value of a timeshare package. I could stay anywhere, he said, for $30 or $40 a night. You just buy these points for $12,000 and use them as credit. And it’s only $350 a year after that. What’s more, if I go to this meeting I [...]
Dirty fighting in the home of the brave