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Let me tell you about the middle path.

Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted,
abstaining from eating any meat or fish, does not clean the one who is deluded.
Mortifying the flesh through excessive... continue...

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SELF & NO-SELF
Posted on Sep.01.2009 @ 12:03AM EDT by chontri

Supposedly,
there is someone who after having examined himself carefully
declares that there is self and clings to the existence of it;
and there is another who after having examined himself carefully
declares that there is no self at all, and clings to the non-existence of it;
and there is another who after having examined himself carefully declares
that it is beyond self and no-self and clings to the beyond-self-and-no-self.

Is there anything different among three of them?

ChonTri 08/31/2009

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