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How to read sacred texts without losing their essence

My meditation teacher quotes Buddhist texts that sound beautiful but when I try to read them myself they feel cold and academic and I wonder if I'm missing something essential.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Direct engagement with scriptures isn't matching your mediated experience of them.

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