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So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.

Brad Warner

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.
BRAD WARNER

Genuine Guy Person Talking
We always imagine that there’s got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads.
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Believe Choices Else Somewhere
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

So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.

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