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Bon Dzogchen
T.W.: In a lot of things you will be free.
L.M.: Bon practice is to help the student learn how not to create new karmic webs or entanglements.
T.W.: Not to create new karmic waves. And to try to burn the seeds of the old ones.
L.M.: Which must be very substantial.
T.W.: Many lives.
L.M.: Over the course of many lifetimes. Then too, Bon meditation stands on its own as a tradition. Though it has been obviously influenced by Buddhism over many centuries.
T.W.: Bon is a form of Buddhism. But it has its unique characteristics.
L.M.: Perhaps what it all comes down to—by our daily practice—is that we are really learning to love more. Of course, that's the teaching of Jesus, to love one another.
T.W.: Yes, I think the main thing is really being an example oneself for other people. If you don't like suffering, you know other people don't like suffering. If you don't like pain, if you don't want to be hurt: don't hurt other people. If you don't want bad things said to you—don't say them to other people.
Whatever you want, other people want that. So a learning place would bea good place to begin would be—with the example of oneself, how you feel.
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