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Opening To The Joy Of Work
THE IDEA OF RIGHT livelihood has been close to my heart since childhood, though I had no idea such a concept existed when I was a kid. I just knew I didn’t want to turn out like my dad. Nearly every evening when I was growing up, my mom and I would w
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What Is Harmful? What Is Helpful?
THE ETHICS of Chan Buddhism begin with the ultimate truth that we are already free. However, this intrinsic freedom is shrouded by relative social conditioning, including views about what is harmful or beneficial. Our task as practitioners is to brid
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The Practice of Fierce Inner Heat
ONE OF THE MOST renowned yogis in Tibetan history, Milarepa (1040–1113), transformed his negative karma through deep practice on retreat, in time becoming a great inspiration for practitioners, who still sing his many “songs of realization” describin

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