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9 - Carrots & Sticks

Secular Buddhism

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The Multiple Arrows

The buddha's very first lesson, his key teaching, was understanding the nature of who we are. So when we understand the way we're hard wired, we start to get a glimpse into the natur of how we are. And if we were to live like maple leaves, we would understand that there is no front and there is no back. There's just the totality of what we are. There's nothing to hide. Wele applying this to this concept of the multiple arrows. It's similar. You know that the first arrow is going to get you. You're going to be hit by arrows at various stages in life,. But now you immediately know the follow up arrow

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