224 – Human Nature: Why Aren't We Born Enlightened?

The Zen Studies Podcast
16/12/2022 29 min Episodio 224
224 – Human Nature: Why Aren't We Born Enlightened?

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Why aren't we just all born enlightened and avoid suffering? Or, we could ask: Why are human beings the way they are? Why did they evolve to cause so much suffering for themselves and others? If we all have Buddha-Nature, why isn't that manifest from the beginning, and why does it get obscured so completely? Why is practice so hard if, as the teachings say, we have everything we need from the beginning?

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