The Crispness of My Secular Life

How Dropping Beliefs Has Connected Me More

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For many years, I was obsessed with spirituality. And for many years, I was a devoted Buddhist in a Mahayana tradition (on my way to ordination in a ministerial program). This path, and the truly wonderful teachers I was fortunate enough to practice with, taught and grew me tremendously, but I understand only now that it was also deeply entangled with a core belief…