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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.

Brad Warner

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
As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Enlightenment People Reality
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
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that’s easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.
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Drama Real Strong
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
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
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
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
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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Body Brain Thinking
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
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’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
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
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
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

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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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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