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Nondual Teachings of LinJi, with Shinzen Young

Deconstructing Yourself

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Is It a Function of Equanimity?

The ability to stabilize contact with something like that is pretty much a function of your equanimity. The difference between, like those little gans that people notice, the differ between that and sitting there for three days without moving kind of gone. Some people have an altered physiology that allows for this. And yes, some people seem to be those rara avas, you know, those rare birds that can just enter these physiological trances. But i'm saying that for us ordinary practitioners, those states are also available so that when life throws a real curve ball at you as a practitioner, if it's enough to really knock you off centre, and you equonomize that, you will

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