Skeptical Buddhism

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9 months ago

19/ Why all this effort is worthwhile ... #SB19of10K
… A brief discussion of the complexity of the Buddha's use of layering of meaning and its historical precedent, the Buddha's DA as a massive koan, and some reasons the effort of understanding it all is worthwhile.
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Skeptical Buddhism

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1 year ago

1/ These threads are about a new understanding of dependent arising (DA) that's revealed by seeing the way the Buddha built its structure in parallel to Vedic creation myths and the philosophies they represented. This new view has some unexpected, surprising, and wonderful benefits.
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