Letting go of our way of thinking
Zen is trying to tell us that real intuition happens when we abandon the kind of thinking that created the
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The Zennist
The Zennist
The wonder years (wondering what happened)
Our youthful years have made us attached to something that we should not be so attached to. We are not
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Consciousness blocks our intuition
Consciousness for Buddhism involves the production of thingness, that is, objective reality and subject which is non-objective. It always blocks the intuition
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Buddha and Christ are not mere names
Both terms “Buddha” and “Christ” are not mere names but represent actual spiritual states. Buddha refers to one who has awakened
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Realizing the unimaginable
There are two questions we are reluctant to spend much time dwelling on. There is the questions of what were
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A book, The Secret Of Zen
Back in the early 60s, if I went into a bookstore in Berkeley or San Francisco and bought a D.T.
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Meaning is not automatically in information
Our current worldview is enveloped in materialism which is a mechanistic way of looking at our existence but certainly not
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Consciousness is especially adapted to live in an illusory world
The past world of man and the future world of man will always be in the imagination (an illusion) where
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Where does evil and corruption begin?
Evil and corruption begin in the human heart. Think of the real cause of evil and corruption to be like
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Our true self (or nature)
Our human world is always covering our true nature with emotional downturns, speculation, and misinformation that only rebirth can remove
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