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The Buddha's Five Protections - Part 2

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

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The Buddha's Five Protections - Part 1

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Buddha spoke about five ways to protect ourselves and our practice. Here I'll write about he first two of these, and continue with the rest next week.

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How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by, those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

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One Who Protects The Truth Will Be Protected By It

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is a saying, "One who protects the dhamma, the truth, will be protected by it." Sometimes this concept of protection is a little difficult for us to understand.

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Buddhism: Between Desire and Emptiness

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping, and it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

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Buddhism: Between Overindulgence And Self-Hatred

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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For us the question becomes, can we find that place in the middle of these extremes, neither fruitlessly clinging to transient experiences, nor working from a place of self-hatred?

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