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Podcast: The Zen Studies Podcast
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213 – Deconstructing Self: Which Aspects Are Fine, and Which Cause Suffering?
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:30:59
Publish Date: 2022-08-19 23:53:41
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The core teaching of Zen is that understanding the true nature of self is of the utmost importance to living a life that is liberated, compassionate, generous, wise, and skillful. Mindful examination of a subject like the self classically involves something akin to deconstruction; once we recognize the component parts of something, our sense of it as monolithic thing or force is undermined. I parse "the self" into six aspects, and discuss how each relates to our practice.
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