Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Slash Nirvana - I'm Solitary of Anger
Erli: I think cultivating solitude is basically learning how to be less reactive. And that's where emotional intelligence comes in. Emotional intelligences an intelligence that seeks to respond to the situation from a non reactive space, and that non reactive space is solitude. Nirvana is notvvass lettle clarify that nirvana is not some buddhist heaven somewhere,. Some place you go to after you die, or some deep mystical spirityou might land in one day. But nirvana, as the buddha defined it, is simply the absence of greed, absence of dislike and absence of egoism.
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