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Posted on May.24.2017 @ 10:37AM EDT by QuantumZen
Good bye. The realization I finally acquired is that zen is yet another means of escape. Pretentious and opaque, unnatural and melancholic... Sit zazen, count your breaths and feel better.
Don't overcomplicate things, live a simple life. Have simple pleasures and moments of contemplation. Have emotions and attachments. Be aware of them and welcome them as they come, don't grief for them as they go. Do the same with people. In general, don't worry, just wonder and be kind to others.
Om.
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Reply from so_teh
May.24.2017
01:05PM EDT
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A deep affection,
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Reply from so_teh
May.25.2017
02:37PM EDT
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Zen/meditation is a kind of language, also. |
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Reply from so_teh
May.28.2017
09:33PM EDT
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downhearted
downcast eyes
sorting out delusions
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Reply from so_teh
May.30.2017
10:24AM EDT
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In the end |
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Reply from Phil Space
May.30.2017
12:19PM EDT
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It's a super weird substance, the word. |
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Reply from Phil Space
May.30.2017
12:23PM EDT
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Dead men of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your lids. |
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Reply from so_teh
May.30.2017
08:04PM EDT
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If I am not you, and nature is complete with separate mutations, and there are separate mind's altering things, and existence is impermanent through and through, and if thinking were the root cause of duality, and consciousness were limited to space and time... which my impression tells me that [this state] is the comfortable condition between perceiver and perceived where attachment forms in place of 'something' whole-and-integral. |
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Reply from so_teh
May.30.2017
08:10PM EDT
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Deriving desired "persons" from this position eeks big trouble. And there we have the professional phenomenon. |
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Reply from so_teh
May.30.2017
08:15PM EDT
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Professionalism |
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Reply from so_teh
May.30.2017
08:28PM EDT
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Where professionalism is valued higher than originality art goes unrecognised and derangement results. |
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Reply from so_teh
May.30.2017
08:54PM EDT
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If I am not you, and nature is complete with separate mutations, and there are separate mind's altering things, and existence is impermanent through and through, and if thinking were the root cause of duality, and consciousness were limited to space and time... which my impression tells me that [this state] is the comfortable condition between perceiver and perceived where attachment forms in place of 'something' whole-and-integral. So in deriving desired "persons" from this position eeks big trouble. And there we have professionalism. Where professionalism is valued higher than originality art goes unrecognised and derangement results.
Phew* got it out finally. Sorry about that. |
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Reply from so_teh
Jun.01.2017
06:46PM EDT
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It's alright to change for others. You reveal a divine attribute to be selfless in your willingness to dissociate your self-image in the spirit of mutual response to the other. Duly you will learn about yourself in the process. |
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Reply from Enver m.
Jun.11.2017
09:55AM EDT
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Quote=" Good bye. The realization I finally acquired is that zen is yet another means of escape. Pretentious and opaque, unnatural and melancholic... Sit zazen, count your breaths and feel better. Don't overcomplicate things, live a simple life. Have simple pleasures and moments of contemplation. Have emotions and attachments. Be aware of them and welcome them as they come, don't grief for them as they go. Do the same with people. In general, don't worry, just wonder and be kind to others.Om.
Om
would be a good beginning..
You are not leaving Zen:) ,don't you? |
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Reply from Phil Space
Jun.11.2017
06:46PM EDT
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What the? |
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