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  1. Dennis A @[email protected] ·

    #Buddhism #birth #death #impermanence #contemplation #DianaStRuth
    "Buddha taught that we don’t live forever because birth is a delusion, and we don’t die because likewise birth is a delusion, we were never born, so how can we die."

    Our culture doesn’t encourage too much contemplation on birth and death

    "We see and know impermanence as a constant. And that is liberating. All the mental suffering about what is going to happen to us, about being this or that person ..."
    buddhismnow.com/2014/05/10/our

    #buddhism #birth #death #impermanence #contemplation #dianastruth
  2. Dennis A @[email protected] ·

    #Buddhism #NobleEightfoldPath #RightLivelihood #DianaStRuth
    Right Livelihood, by Diana St Ruth – Buddhism now

    "So what differentiates a Right Livelihood business from any other? It has to be the dharma element, a basic code of practice within oneself. It isn’t a question of just saying, ‘Oh, we’re a Buddhist publisher so we’re a Right Livelihood business!’"
    buddhismnow.com/2012/11/17/rig

    #buddhism #nobleeightfoldpath #rightlivelihood #dianastruth