Cessation, in Sanskrit: nirodha, is a term used to denote the ending or cessation of suffering and its causes, primarily craving and attachment. The generic English term “enlightenment” is used to cover the many names with which this event is named in the various traditions. The interpretation and importance given to this event also vary.
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The Holocaust is the darkest example I know of freedom gone terribly wrong. And it shakes me to my core. How could a good God allow such suffering?
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For those of us who feel these truths in our bones, and maybe even have them inked on our bodies, these teachings are alive. They’re not museum pieces. They’re practice. Path. Breath.
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To my mind there’s something deeply immoral about a spiritual tradition reaching the West and screwing people for money.
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AI doesn’t experience things. It doesn’t even experience nothing. It’s basically a zombie. We anthropomorphize it to describe what it’s doing, but it isn’t doing anything from its frame of reference. It doesn’t think, feel, want or know anything.
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