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  • Lion's Roar

    3 LETTING GO

    Mar 23, 2021 2 minutes

    Siddhartha left his palace until now, Buddhism has been, at its heart, a practice of renunciation. We tell the Buddha’s story as if he gave up everything for the spiritual path, but of course, he didn’t, not really. He put down one life direction so that he could grasp a new one, a spiritual dream

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