Buddha: Don't Associate With Fools
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The Buddha tells us that our relationships are “the whole of this spiritual life”; that in fact they can greatly determine both our happiness, or our sorrow. Because of this, he urges us to use our practice to closely discern which relationships we should nurture, and which we might want to abandon. This talk dives into the teachings on this in more detail, and offers examples about how we might go about doing this.
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