Expanding Mind – Deconstructing Yourself

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Expanding Mind – Deconstructing Yourself

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Jun 6, 2019

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A discussion with meditation teacher and author Michael Taft host of the Deconstructing Yourself podcast, about hardcore dharma, Buddhist modernism, shop talk, the soup of the sangha, and the problem of the achievement self and the blind leading the blind.

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Jun 6, 2019

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