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fleeting are desires and yet we aspire ~ consign them all to the funeral fire

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Date: 2/15/2025 7:06:00 PM
whoa... that's a bit flammable, Seeker. lol
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Lin Lane
Date: 2/15/2025 10:24:00 PM
Looking in rather than being entangled in the web.
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Unseeking Seeker
Date: 2/15/2025 7:16:00 PM
hahaha ~ yet, a standard Buddhist practice asks us to introspect, ‘to whom do these thoughts or desires come … to body-mind, which I am not’ and thus in observer stance we become free from the web of fears we have ourselves created.

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