http://www.aquietmind.com/2006/04/23/death-is-simply-the-fear-of-the-unknown/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.aquietmind.com/2006/04/23/death-is-simply-the-fear-of-the-unknown/comment-page-1/#comment-94 brendan shields Thu, 25 May 2006 03:14:43 +0000 http://www.aquietmind.com/2006/04/23/death-is-simply-the-fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-94 i have been listering to your podcasts for a while now and i must say that for the most part i find them to be of interest. i would like to ask you a question. one of my issues with the dharma teachings, or perhaps i should say the dharma as it is being taught through others, is that there can be a tendancy to interperate the teachings to mean that one needs, or can, withdraw for the life around oneself because it is all really a facade, a story that the mind is play on us. i know that this is simplistic but i hope you get what i am saying. particularly in the west where we are so individualist i see many people around me use the dharma teaching as a route to justify isolation for the hard realities of life, to withdraw for social justice issues and causes. please comment on this i have been listering to your podcasts for a while now and i must say that for the most part i find them to be of interest. i would like to ask you a question. one of my issues with the dharma teachings, or perhaps i should say the dharma as it is being taught through others, is that there can be a tendancy to interperate the teachings to mean that one needs, or can, withdraw for the life around oneself because it is all really a facade, a story that the mind is play on us. i know that this is simplistic but i hope you get what i am saying. particularly in the west where we are so individualist i see many people around me use the dharma teaching as a route to justify isolation for the hard realities of life, to withdraw for social justice issues and causes. please comment on this

]]> http://www.aquietmind.com/2006/04/23/death-is-simply-the-fear-of-the-unknown/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Elona Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:46:33 +0000 http://www.aquietmind.com/2006/04/23/death-is-simply-the-fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-56 I have started to listen to your podcasts and have found them very helpful. Thank you I have started to listen to your podcasts and have found them very helpful. Thank you

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