I read some stuff by Eduardo Duran back in the 80’s dealing with Native American mental health issues, back when I was working in that area. I hadn’t come across any books by him since then. Sounds interesting.
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Interesting. There is another factor that I would add, but I don’t know if this correlates with Buddhism or not. I would call it one’s “soul purpose.” This is the idea that we incarnate not just to work out our past karma, but also because there are things that the soul is needing or wanting to learn in order to develop further. This may be an aspect of “Citta Niyama.” I get this idea more from Jungian psychology than from Buddhism. It’s connected to the Jungian idea of individuation (the process of becoming your whole individual Self). But this may be happening at a Soul level over many lifetimes. The latter isn’t something that Jung states, but it’s my own intuitive understanding of what is going on. I also had a very impactful lucid dream several years ago in which I was told that soul’s incarnate on earth because it is “the greatest University in the Universe.” That we come here mostly in order to learn.
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“Prefer pleasure over desire. Desire always leads to the search for what we lack. Pleasure is content with what you have. Want everything you have and you will have everything you want. Finding your pleasure in what is, the pleasure of existing, the pleasure of the moment: this is the end of human life and the way to cross this chaotic world, this world of collapses, remaining centered.”
- Jean-Yves Leloup, Un Art de Vivre et d’Aimer par Temps de Catastrophe, 2020, pp.18-19.
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hahaha 
thank you for sharing this story here with us 
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Nice synch, was thinking about MA yesterday
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What is this?
LOVED this video SO much, VERY SACRED teachings
Thank you my heart
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@BlessingsDeers. Yes! Pleasure is always experienced in the present. Desire is chasing for something in the future, and the future never arrives. It’s the carrot on a stick!
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If you want
to turn me into
the love we need
sending a light
in everything you do…
བྱིས་དུས་རྩེད་མོར་གཡེང་དུས།།
ཁྱེད་ནི་དགོད་སྒྲ་ཡིན་བྱུང་།།
མཚན་མོའི་གཉིད་ཀྱང་བཅག་སོང་།།
When playing around as a kid
You are the sound of joy
Even the night sleep was taken away
གཞོན་དུས་བརྩེ་དུང་བཙལ་དུས།།
ཁྱེད་ནི་སྙན་ངག་ཡིན་བྱུང་།།
མིག་ཆུའི་སྣག་ཚྭ་རྫོགས་སོང་།།
When searching for love as a teen
You are the book of poems
Tearful eyes were already dried up
དར་མའི་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་དེ་ན།།
མ་སྐྱེས་ཨ་ཕའི་ཞལ་རས།།
ཡིད་ལ་ཝ་ལེ་ཝ་ལེ།
In that adult family life
The face of the father
Was crystal clear in my mind
རྒན་མོའི་མཐའ་མའི་མཛུམ་མདངས།།
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཤོར་སོང་།།
འོད་ཀྱི་ལམ་སྣེ་ཟིན་བྱུང་།།
The smile of the old lady
Was gone into yours
It reaches the edge of the light.
In everything you do *3
ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་འོད་སྣང་སྤྲོས།
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borrowed this from @_Barry
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Amen Sister, Love it!
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