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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 25: Enjoying the Present Moment
Description: A fool suffers, thinking, "I have children! I have wealth!" One's self is not even one's own. How then are children? How then is wealth? --Buddha, The Dhammapada, verse 61 Buddha said that all things are like dreams, like illusions, and like a mirage that appears to be water but is not water. While things appear to exist from their own side, independent of our mind's perception, independent of the label we give them, and fixed, nothing exists in that way. Our self, our children, our wealth exist as mere...