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Special Retreat Thailand January 2005
Rosemary
9
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I appreciate the hands on, practical practice you teach. However Steve responded to a question about no self by saying not to concern ourselves with theoretical Buddhism. Isn't no self an actual experience? Isn't it an experience of ourselves as a process rather than a self? Isn't it impermanent? And isn't the experience helpful in the practice of letting go of me, mine as well as the Dukkha of attachment. And isn't it one of the central teachings of Buddhism, so why did Steve say not to bother with it?
Ref: 2005.01.x.09.09
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