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

Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern

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The Buddhist Chain of Karma: Craving and Compassion

Buddhism teaches that desire and compassion are no longer distinct. When a Buddha attains that kind of level of complete realization, he exits the human realm as a realm. And therefore, if you are in love, you'd be really, really openhearted to the well-being and success or joy of your partner,. But that's such a big field. There would be some kind of transformation of that energy into a very open style of communication. We have seen it, it's possible. And we're all at different stages of trying to explore that. Because the other thing doesn't work. I mean, that's the big argument. It just doesn't really work. The

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