242 books
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404 voters
1860
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Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage.
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― Deity Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
― Deity Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
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Similarly, the nation’s top wealth holders in 1860 had tended to be its major slaveholders. In total, the United States in 1860 had about four million slaves, and on the open market they were worth at least three billion dollars. That was roughly three times the amount of capital invested in manufacturing, three times the amount invested in railroads, seven times the amount invested in banks, and forty-eight times the amount the federal government spent that year. Only the nation’s real estate w
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― Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment
― Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment