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View submission: Buddhism is NOT life-denying.
All true! Now say this with half as many words. And then after that, half as many again.
Comment by wgimbel at 21/01/2025 at 02:18 UTC*
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Life includes suffering, but suffering is not life…
Comment by JundoCohen at 21/01/2025 at 00:10 UTC*
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People misunderstand this "way beyond words and letters" to mean that "words and letters" are necessarily bad. It is possible to express with beautiful words and letters while fully free of words and letters. In fact, it is possible to be a prisoner, tangled in silence! I advise to leap past both words and no words. (I am now teaching something from the 700 page Blue Cliff Record which is about silence. :-)