You may not not have been born in Buddhist country or to a Buddhist family, you may not wear robes or shave your head, you may eat meat and idolize Eminem and Paris Hilton. That doesn’t mean you can’t be a Buddhist.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book What Makes You Not a Buddhist
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- Emptiness
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- Beyond nonviolence and meditation
- Relationships
- Emotionally not possible
- What is in the mind of a Buddhist
- Buying into emotions
- The primordial absence of defilements
- Four seals
- Acts of Generosity
- Living fully
- Not paranoid but prepared
- Primordial purity
- Buddhist renunciation
- The impossible is possible
- The real source of fear is not knowing
- Driven by ambitions
- Shielding ourselves and others from the truth