Dharma for Personal Reflection

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Buddhist psychology is a joyous science of the heart. It operates on the assumption that we can use our own sophisticated minds to realize our selfless and thus transformable nature. It teaches us how to take apart our absolutized self-sense in a useful way so that we are no longer in conflict with reality as we normally are, kicking and screaming and miserable but pretending that we’ve got it all together. It teaches us to free ourselves from our demons by understanding our true place in reality: ultimately selfless while relatively present, aware, and interconnected with all other beings. It teaches us to embrace infinite life. And it teaches us compassion, caring for others rather than obsessing over ourselves.

Robert Thurman

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