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Withdrawal and Engagement On Bodhisattva Path

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The Disenchantment of Sanghsara

When I moved to London it was almost easier to get away from that because when I lived in Glasgow I was quite embedded in some of those different polarisations politically or the kind of slightly more alternative scene. In a way for me I had to make a physical withdrawal to be able to kind of deal with some of the internal experiences that I was having. So I don't claim that this was full blown nibbida which is the word for withdrawal but there was definitely a recognition that Sanghsara was not going to give me what I was looking for. There's a song in that in there. The Brugdon Palace nibbida and it's often translated as disgust which is

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