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Obstacles Are the Path
- Keichu Makes Carts
- Length: 48 mins
- Speech
- Release date: 07-25-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Dharma Communications
Regular price: $6.30
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Publisher's Summary
What does it mean to forget the self? Who are you when you take away the 10,000 parts into which you have divided your life, the 10,000 seams or gaps you’ve laced over your self? The divisions and delusions that have burdened us can become our path - in fact, they are and have always been our path.
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