The insistence that dharmas don't exist forces proponents into the dualistic position of having one metaphysical explanation for experience and a completely different metaphysical explanation for reality. #buddhiststudies #twotruths #prajnaparamita

It is possible to both, love a person and hate what they do. To care for, and put in boundaries. To send compassion, and distance oneself from. To stay within and seek escape from. You are not obliged to lead an either/or life.

#equanimity #uppekha #equipoise #balance #mindfulness #TwoTruths #Buddhism #Vajrayana #boundaries #MentalHealth

do not collect the evidence by which to willingly think the worst of yourself.

it is a statistical selection. you can as easily do the opposite.

neither is true in their entirety, we are composites. not entirely terrible, not entirely angelic.

to see oneself realistically is the basis of wisdom of practice.

#compassion #kindness #selfimage #TwoTruths

One of the most essential, and annoying, parts of #awareness, is seeing that those we have quarrel with, are loved, whole, evolving individuals in their own right. That how we feel about them does not define them, just as how they think of us does not define us. These are parts of a whole we have to retrain ourselves to see. This offers us some release from mutual disapproval. Individuals also have #TwoTruths

My #poem #adhominem appeared in the Converse #anthology, 2022.

#Mindfulness #Buddhism