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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.

Brad Warner

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
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
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
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
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Buddhist Morality Wells
As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Enlightenment People Reality
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
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
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 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
People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.
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Enlightenment People Powerful
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Doubt Ends Faith Keps
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
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

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