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From my viewpoint, what I can see, first of all, is that there is a need for institutions that are attempting to integrate Dharma transmission with good scholarship, art, sciences, humanities, the whole ball game. Those things have been separated for so long that the real challenge is to bring them together. There are places...
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I think that every institution has a difficult time staying as the edge of truth for a very long time, because of the pressure of survival. There has got to be enough structure for the game to work, and the structures often find this kind of mentality too high risk for its stability. It’s too...
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There are a lot of things that my guru Maharajji said to me in the small amount of time I was with him. I had been with him from November, 1967 to March, 1968. “With him” means I was in a temple to which he was connected. I’d estimate I saw him a total of...
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There was a moment when Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and I were doing a dialogue together, and I remember one particular moment in which we agreed that freedom was the issue. I asked Rinpoche if there was anything he wouldn’t give up for freedom and he said his lineage… I said, well better luck next time....
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It requires inner work for you to cultivate a perspective within yourself that sees your intellect as a servant, not as your identity. To the extent you are capable of doing that, you can then play the game of academia, do the work that only can be done in that analytic fashion without being trapped...
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