Ep. 143 – Transforming Fear
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Other Extreme to Avoid Is Self-Mortification
In the India of the Buddhist time, there were many very intense ascetic practices. What would be the equivalent of self-mortification in this culture? I couldn't think of anything. We've gone so far to the extreme of attachment to comfort that probably what the Buddha considered as balanced acts of renunciation, we would think of as intense self-mortifying.
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