Put Your Heart Into It Again: The Buddha On Determination

Shell Fischer's Podcast by Mindful Shenandoah Valley

Jun 29, 202452:57Religion & Spirituality

As opposed to the act of "striving," which involves a kind of unhealthy or stressful clinging to some sort of expectation, and typically arises from our more self-centered mind, or ego - the quality of aditthana (or dete...

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