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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.

Brad Warner

As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Enlightenment People Reality
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
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.
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Doers Real Rewards
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Doubt Ends Faith Keps
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
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
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
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Buddhist Morality Wells
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
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
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
Leaving home’ to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society – your home – tells you is important.
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Attitude Mean Truth
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
True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
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Encounters Expression Meditation
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
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

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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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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