The Acceptance of Our True Selves

Authentic being occurs when we live and speak out of our unified and unique individuality. This is easy to say in words, but exceedingly hard to live out in reality. There's a similar set of ideas in the buddhist tradition, though theyare expressed in a very different symbolic form. So here i'm going to present a parable called the hawk, as told by the buddha in what is known as the sakunagi suta. And it goes like this, one in the distant past, a hawk suddenly swooped down and seized a quail. As the quail was being carried away by the hawk, it lamented how unfortunate i am. What little merit

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