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"\n\n\tI’m tempted to go back and forth here and intuitively worry I’m getting insecure and frustrated/defending my sense of self.\n\n\n\n\thowever I’m a bit confused by your perceptions. Thich Nhat Hanh, my first Buddhist teacher, defined bodhicitta as the mind of love. I suppose absolute bodhicitta is an unconditional love/longing to nourish and benefit all beings. However relative bodhicitta as I understand it is about willing yourself through compassionate intent towards loving thought, speech, and conduct, whether it comes totally natural or not. (I learned about the distinction btwn the two In Chogyam Trungpa’s aforementioned treatise on the Mahayana.) I’m not sure how that’s not orienting oneself constantly and gently towards the heart/mind?\n\n\n\n\t \n\n\n\n\tim always open to correcting myself, but feeling misunderstood is an emotional trigger for me, and due to the extreme uniqueness and unorthodox nature of my path total acceptance and understanding is hard to come by, even from very advanced practicioners.\n\n\n\n\t🤷🏼‍♂️ 🙏🏼\n\n"
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