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AUTHOR SERIES: "When Shadow Meets the Boddhisattva" w/ Andrew Cohen

The Integral Stage

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Suffering Is the First Normal Truth of Buddhism

Buddhism's emphasis on suffering is the first normal truth of Buddhism, he says. It took him a long time to realize this simple but profound truth that suffering is coming to terms with the truth of suffering as important as awakening to the truth of enlightened awareness. We need both and it was going to be able to doIt himself with preacher for a long time. No matter how awake we are to anoint awareness, we're not going to be fully half as fully awake as we need to be. And I feel that we're actually consciously in touch with that at a level of conscious perception and emotional sensitivity.

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