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    What Are You Afraid Of? Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 14 Jun 2011
    I've often heard people say that the two opposing forces that define the world and the human struggle are not good and evil, but love and fear. This isn't a Buddhist teaching, just something people say. While this view may be a bit simplistic I think there is some real truth in it, and it is a teaching that came to mind several times while watching Ezra Bayda's talk, "Working with Fear" from his ongoing Tricycle Retreat "Relationships, Love, and Spiritual Practice." In his talk Ezra explains, More »
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    Fear and Anger are the Same Mind State Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 13 Apr 2011
    Sharon Salzberg, from the week 2 talk of her Tricycle Retreat, "The Five Hindrances: Desire and Aversion" Aversion in Buddhist psychology is quite interesting, because it's both anger and fear. Anger and fear are considered in many ways to be the same mind state, just in different forms. Anger is the outflowing, expressive energized form and fear is the held in, frozen, imploding form. More »