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Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

Brad Warner

I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that’s my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, “Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven.”
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Believe Land Laughing
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Buddhist Morality Wells
I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I’ve forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.
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Imagination Land Ties
The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.
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Effort Order Thinking
Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.
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Miracle Real Secret
You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
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Always Away Running Situation
The state of ambiguity – that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you’re living through right now – is enlightenment itself.
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Awful Confused Enlightenment
Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter – bliss or nonbliss – possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.
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Beauty Missing Practice
As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Enlightenment People Reality
It’s sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it’s important to remember they weren’t always separate realms of inquiry.
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Ideas Innovation Philosophy
I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood didn’t understand what Godzilla was.
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Blow Buttons Scary
What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn’t even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.
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Firsts Genuine Teacher
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
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Action Morality Real
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Doubt Ends Faith Keps
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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Body Brain Thinking
Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.
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Needs Perspective Unique

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