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Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern cover image

Fruitless Desires, A Buddhist View with David Nichtern & Michael Kammers

Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern

CHAPTER

The Discourse of the Daydream

I think part of that ignorance is like it's an environment in Trungpa Rinpoche and cutting through spiritual materialism when he talks about the realms. He uses the word environment and he says that our thought and our emotions, they kind of fuse and they become an environment. And then that realm is the environment that we're inhabiting that's a daydream to use your word. When you bump up against reality and that other person says something that pops like, wait, what is this? That's actually the universal guru or the mandala, whatever. Like that's reality. I had an idea for a book called Bubble Theory because it's another way of looking at it is

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