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January 2025

Are You Hurtling Into The Fifth Dimension?
Published on The Chocolate Taoist ™ • 
The Tergar Bus Will Pick You Up Anywhere Along the Way
Watch now | Interview with Beth Korczynski of Mingyur Rinpoche's Tergar International
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Book Peek: A Chapter on Enlightenment
Stop struggling toward it and start relaxing into it
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Real vs. Meme in Stoicism and Buddhism
With a test of Google's accuracy finding quotes that are real
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The Modern Klesha of Isolation and Division
One of the most damaging mental poisons of today’s modern world
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Ooonly YOUUU
All around me I see good people who want to save the world.
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Holy(?) Images of the Buddha
Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap.
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Moses, Tablets, Words, and the Kingdom of God
What's holy came from 40 days and nights of experience, not concepts
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Book Peek: The Introduction Plus
A new Middle Way and observations on Jesus and Buddha
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A Taste of the Feminine in Tantric Buddhism
Video: Lama Tsultrim analyzes the story of Naropa and the old hag
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