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So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn’t have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.

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
So I’m skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it’s only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That’s why I’ve stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.
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Cynical Long Path
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
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
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
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
Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, “Listen Godzilla, you don’t have to do all this. Just chill out a little bit and everything will be fine”.
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Chill Littles might
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
As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Enlightenment People Reality
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Doubt Ends Faith Keps
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 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
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
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Buddhist Morality Wells
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
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
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Garden Light Tree

So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn’t have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.

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So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn’t have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.

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