Greetings, Friendlies.:) “It’s just a theory. It doesn’t have anything to do with my practice.” Some of us have been taught that theory—anything intellectual really—is disruptive to dhammic path-ing. Theory, we have been told, actively hinders liberation. But that take, “theory is not good for practice” is itself a theory and it shapes our practice. […]
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Greetings, Friendlies.:) Have you ever noticed how some parts of you want to deeply engage with the world—and other parts want to control it? Classically we might identify the one as a kind of Buddha-nature and the other as the work of Māra. McGilchrist’s view of hemisphere lateralization [1] suggests that these two views of […]
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