“Academic institutions have turned culture – which should help us to live and die well – into abstract scholarship. Buddhist philosophies are not like this. They're on a mission to help you find your way through the challenges of existence. That's why it would be extremely strange to hear at a middle class dinner party that someone found solace in Hegel or Aristotle, but unsurprising to hear that they'd been to Nepal and been entranced by traditional wisdom.”
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