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Meditating with Buddhist Sutras, with Michael Owens

Deconstructing Yourself

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Therman or Burton Watson?

Robert therman's translation is impeccable. It has an awesome glossary. But if you're familiar with darma and know all your sanscrit words, just go to the therman one. I mean, it's just completely freaky from moment one. And this seems to be the thing about these sutras, as they're just, as you're saying there, it reminds me of what robert anton wilson used to call ant gical terrorism. There's a wrote formula for everything. You get into something like mlcertindatia, and it's just like a pound of ls d delivered into your veins.

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