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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

The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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Body Brain Thinking
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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Genuine Guy Person Talking
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
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
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 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
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
As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Enlightenment People Reality
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
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
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
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Buddhist Morality Wells
Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter – bliss or nonbliss – possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.
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Beauty Missing Practice
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Doubt Ends Faith Keps
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

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