What Does It Marry Oliver?

Buddhist contemplative psychology says the mind is already fundamentally open. It's remembering instead of learning something new, it's remembering. And that's a very different kind of learning because you can't fail. So those kinds of practices, that's what we call the second turning, the maiana. When that gets stabilized, which it will, developmentally it shifts you to a... Well, that open wondrous state that you were mentioning,. if that became a permanent trait, right? Which year or two, three years of practice, it can become a permanent trait.

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