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Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

Brad Warner

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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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Death Real Time
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
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
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Buddhist Morality Wells
I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he’s gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.
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Mean People Water
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
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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Genuine Guy Person Talking
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
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

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