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Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Brad Warner

I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan’s are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan’s, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.
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Character Mean Real
Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
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Expectations Head Knows Thoughts
I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I’ll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.
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Different Remember Writing
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
the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.
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Death Real Time
We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there’s no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here…Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.
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Believe Choice Poetry Somewhere
People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.
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Enlightenment People Powerful
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
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
A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
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Ideas Insanity People
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
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
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Ideas Ought Suffering
I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he’s gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.
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Mean People Water
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
You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.
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Death Life Live Understanding
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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Body Brain Thinking

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