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Paywalled hard. Direct link, web>google, etc. See I think Dalai Lama is wrong in this case; behind my current anxiety is mainly the fear that soon, all HN subs will be paywalled :) On an unrelated subject: isn't this supposed to be penalized by Google? Different content for their bot vs human users?
Paywalled hard. Direct link, web>google, etc. See I think Dalai Lama is wrong in this case; behind my current anxiety is mainly the fear that soon, all HN subs will be paywalled :) On an unrelated subject: isn't this supposed to be penalized by Google? Different content for their bot vs human users?
Incognito worked for me
That's not what I see when I look into the holy books. Let's be frank here, faith and religion are still the tools to turn ordinary people into genocidal maniacs.
Paywalled hard. Direct link, web>google, etc. See I think Dalai Lama is wrong in this case; behind my current anxiety is mainly the fear that soon, all HN subs will be paywalled :) On an unrelated subject: isn't this supposed to be penalized by Google? Different content for their bot vs human users?
Uncertainty about the future has always been the same.
Don't listen to those devils.
It's odd, the world is the safest and most stable that it has ever been. There has never been a better time to be a human being, and yet, the media and certain politicians would have you believe that there is disaster after disaster, terrorist plots afoot around every corner, feeding your fear day after day. If ever there was an example of the devil at work, then that's it(and I'm not even religious). Uncertainty abo…
But it's not terribly good for the middle class.
And although all the world’s major faiths teach love That's not what I see when I look into the holy books. Let's be frank here, faith and religion are still the tools to turn ordinary people into genocidal maniacs.
It's odd, the world is the safest and most stable that it has ever been. There has never been a better time to be a human being, and yet, the media and certain politicians would have you believe that there is disaster after disaster, terrorist plots afoot around every corner, feeding your fear day after day. If ever there was an example of the devil at work, then that's it(and I'm not even religious). Uncertainty abo…
If you are rich and already in the top class, then maybe. But it's not terribly good for the middle class.
But it's not terribly good for the poor class.
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Don't let wealth create unneeded divides. When you enter the mindset of "us vs. them" you will always be unhappy.
Edit: I grew up in a very poor community and our family yearly income was well under the poverty line (20,209 in Canada). The middle class has always been the richest people in the world for me. Now that I am part of it, I don't feel rich at all. However, I know that I am lucky. It's question of perception. Don't let them divide and conquer you for political gains.
Behind our anxiety is ignorance. Period. Ignorance is described as a veil that obscures the view of what is from so-called primordial awareness or Atman, if you wish - the aspect of the whole (Brahman) in us. (The Buddha explicitly rejected the notion of Atman, but numerous later Indian (tantric) writers messed everything up). It is like continuous day-dreaming. The meaning of Awakening is literal awakening from this habitual delusional day-dreaming to what is.
Most of our fears are due to misapprehension of reality, like classic mistaking of a rope for a snake, and our attaching to (and hence the fear of losing) that illusory my self, which is nothing, but an appearance to ignorant and confused introspection.
This crude formulation is as old as Upanishads.