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The Idea that there is no soul in Buddhism is leftover mistranslation by Christian Europeans studying Theravada and the Pali Cannon. There’s no difference between a Mindstream and a Soul, The Dalai Lama uses the word Soul. The difference is the Buddhist understanding of what the Soul is. Westerners saying “There is no soul” with self satisfaction as if they’ve reached ascesis by denying Jesús are severely deluded and lack basic intuition. They’ve made an oblique curtain of conceptual nonsense, and tall chair for their ego to look down on others. My advise is to generally throw out old Pali Canon translations, they’re filled with the same useless Anglo overthinking to the point of hard boiled nonsense with a disguise of higher consciousness that plagues all European philosophy.

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? Nansen Kills a Cat

Once the monks of the eastern and western Zen halls in Nansen’s temple were quarrelling about a cat. As he saw this, Nansen held up the cat and said, “You monks! If one of you can say a word, I will not slay the cat.” No one could answer. Nansen cut the cat in two. Nansen told Joshu what had happened, and asked him for his view. Joshu thereupon took his sandals, put them upon his head and went away. Nansen said, “If you had been there, I could have spared the cat.”

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