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Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Project of Wisdom and the Project of Compassion

I think this whole exploration begins, for me, as a writer, having studied a buddhist philosophy. In mahayana buddhism, they make a very clear distinction between the project of wisdom and compassion. And their definition of a buddha awake being is one in whom these two dimensions have been realized. I would almost say, more sexy, than philosophyb but really he was about he just indulged in the project he called myself with a capital m.

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