“that Buddhist ‘insubstantialism,’ so to speak, and Vedantic ‘essentialism,’ as it were—that they’re really telling us the same truth: that in all things, and so in each of us, there’s the one unconditioned reality that’s at once infinitely more and immeasurably less than the pitiable little ego in each of us. Love or compassion goes beyond the false self toward the true self, and discovers the latter to be an infinite openness and hospitality to the other. And don’t all the mystical traditions, as well as the moral truths, of all the great faiths attest to this—that the most divine of paths
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