Questions tagged [reality]

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The desire of no desire

I have been thinking on the notion of desiring to have no desire. The idea of striving to not grasp, therefore grasping onto the idea in the first place and rendering it a contradiction and inevitably a failure(?). Is this simply the Great Paradox…
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The illusions and delusions of the world

How do we as Buddhists deal with a world that creates and embraces illusions and fabrications? For example, government is an idea and a fabrication, it is not a person or a thing, it just a group of individuals. A lot of people believe in this idea…
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Paramatha and samatha meditation

Can ultimate paramatha reality ever be observed or realized with only samatha concentration meditation on a concept?
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