simplicity
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Summary
In these texts, simplicity is not a severe life without possessions or desires. In Buddhist practice the important things are the very small, simple things we do, and practice itself gives us mental simplicity. Yet because it is so simple, we find it very difficult.
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But because it's so simple, we find it very difficult
Koan Stories and Being Here and Now June 2007 — Padmafarma
Texts
- One Real Teacher and Simplicity ●●● August 2014 — Banský Studenecafraid to be simple · practice gives mental simplicity
as if we are afraid to be simple. We want to know more and read another book
- Shoaku Makusa 4: Doing Right Without a Doer ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusaconvincing ourselves of simple things
we have to convince ourselves about the very simple things
- Koan Stories and Being Here and Now ●●● June 2007 — Padmafarmaafraid to be simple
But because it's so simple, we find it very difficult
- No Hierarchy of Enlightenment ●●● July 2009 — Dibbavanabecoming simple
So to become simple, we need to give up a very strong intellectual aim
- Western Buddhism and Hierarchy ●●● February 2009 — Cholínbecoming stupid for a short time
So we desperately need some space in our life, to become simple for a short time, to become stupid for a short time