Mark Epstein – The Zen of Therapy
And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen
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Is Aggression a Bad Thing?
Buddhism says the awakened mind is a balance between wisdom and compa. If you have too much compassion but not enough wisdom, they call that idiot compassion. The people who make the mistake of trying to be too sympathetic at the expense of their own aggression are missing out on the wisdom aspect of things. And if you wouldn't mind just expanding an the misnomer that aggression in for people who practise peace is not actually a bad thing. Yes, it's very nice, very nice and an important one.
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