"What is Awakening," TBC Dharma Talk, 14 July 2024

Special guest Ani Lodro, Abbess of the Vajra Vidya Retreat Center, presents this week's Dharma Talk, entitled "What is Awakening."
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"Healthy Egoic Structure"? The ego itself is an illusion. self-acknowledgment, self-love, and self-whatever are all based on your belief in the illusory self or ego. This goes completely against Buddha's teaching. This is the result of American Buddhism becoming self-developmental or well-being-oriented positive psychology, which completely ignores Buddha's emphasis on non-self and impermanence and renunciation of attachments to gain true liberation. Not sorry, if this offends anyone but the Awakening in Buddhism is not about learning to love oneself but to achieve permanent liberation through the penetrating insight that all forms are empty; hence there's nothing to be attached, not even to a so-called "self". May you all wake up and enjoy Peace, Joy and Liberation _()_