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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 Warner

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
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 he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn’t have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.
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Country Couple People World
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
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
You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.
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Death Life Live Understanding
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
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
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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Body Brain Thinking
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
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
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
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

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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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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