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Fear of Loss of Livelihood 2

Posted in Worry, tagged , on February 19, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I ended my last post with the teaching “every breath, new chances.”  This is something that one of my early Zen teachers liked to say.  As I said before, this is the “upside” of the fact that everything changes.  One of the hallmarks of negative mind-states such as sadness, grief, or depression is the sinking [...]

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Loss of Livelihood I

Posted in Fear, tagged , , on February 4, 2010 | 10 Comments »

The fourth “great fear” of Buddhist teaching is “fear of loss of livelihood.”  It is interesting that this doctrine was formulated by monastics living a life of mendicancy and voluntary poverty.  One would think that the vow of poverty would liberate monks from the ordinary anxieties of earning a livelihood, but of course the monks [...]

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