Ep13 - Bishop Robert Barron | Religion and the Opening Up of the Mind
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The True Self, False Self, Is the Problem
Nirvana, it's the blowing out of the candle of desire that is the goal of the buddhist tradition. Is there a false self that's full of all kinds of weird and arrant desires? Yes, and that should be put to death. But i would say, as a christian, there's not just that. There's also a properly directed desire, an awakened and heightened desire. And we can play, as thomas merton did, the true self false self a game.
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