@Meaningness 's characterization of consensus Buddhist teaching in America as "it's nice to be nice" is so cuttingly accurate. Has been haunting my thoughts lately. We can do so much better than such platitudinous practice. The Buddha's teaching is lightning & thunder. 


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I think I probably took that from
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BTW you might want to check this out. I wouldn’t recommend it to most people because it requires extensive non-ordinary experience to make sense, but you have that. http://arobuddhism.org/content/view/594/ …
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The core of it is material that the Shambhala Pubs editor removed from _Roaring Silence_ on the grounds that hardly anyone could understand it, which was probably true. The first few chapters are a highly condensed summary of the material that did go into _Roaring Silence_.
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