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.
BRAD WARNERJust know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
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You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
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Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
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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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Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
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Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.
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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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Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.
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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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As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
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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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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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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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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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