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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Buddhist Practice as I Understand It

Buddhist practice is about attending to phenomena right as opposed to sort of reifying concepts like there might be some practices where you are doing that i'm not totally sure. The temptation is always to say if the normative criteria that it's subject to is less than totally independent of us totally pre-given in the world then it's just all arbitrary yes. There's more norms you know survival not arbitrary norm social consensus not an arbitrary norm although i think it's it's arbitrary with respect to some things and therefore you could say it's not that's not just about social like physics is not just a matter of social consensus but  that's not to say that it has to be yeah

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