augmented illusions

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When somebody tells you something that really hurts your mind, that is the most beneficial thing for your mind because it goes straight in your heart and touches your ego.
This is what shows you, like a mirror, like a teaching from the Buddha, [...]

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Chöd, “cutting through” is a symbolic, some say shamanic, practice from Vajrayana Buddhism. Its symbolism is meant to conquer mortal fear and to face the demons in one’s life square-on, cutting through one’s connection to them, to achieve liberation. So “ego” is cut. When identification [...]