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Feb 09, 2020
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February 9, 2020

Yesterday a reader made a friendly remark about the way in which I "disseminate the teaching." They had a relatively minor objection about my use of the word natural to describe our ordinary mind and how it works. 

Their opinion, in a nutshell, was that the ordinary mind and its machinations are unnatural, that is, u…

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