On Dealing with Destructive Emotions through the “Path of Self-Liberation”
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
In the majority of Buddhist systems and traditions, destructive emotions— hatred, craving and delusion—are considered as the main obstacle to enlightenment and dealt with as such through various methods of counteracting and neutralizing. In the supreme teaching of Dzogchen, however, they are but one of the infinite aspects of the primordially self-perfected dimension of the true nature of mind. Thus they are allowed to show their utterly harmless essence—non-ego, beyond-good-and-evil, empty and luminous—through the path of self-liberation.
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Costantino M. Albini
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