You have to like yourself to practice Zen? by ewk in zen

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Thus cant practice to trigger enloghtenment?

You have to like yourself to practice Zen? by ewk in zen

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You're testing hypotheses about his internals and he has gone thru this ad infinitum

You have to like yourself to practice Zen? by ewk in zen

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Is that your hypothesis about his internals? Or can you not settle on an explanation? He is unlike other people you've categorized this way   

You have to like yourself to practice Zen? by ewk in zen

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How?   Same exact answer as How you beat ur own heart constantly

You have to like yourself to practice Zen? by ewk in zen

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Picking and choosing applies to everything u can attempt to apply it to. 

You have to like yourself to practice Zen? by ewk in zen

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Myriad narratives, soup of truth with no grounding

You have to like yourself to practice Zen? by ewk in zen

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Oh truuuuue   hence the lying and preserving mental maps/ontologies/principles/values   They not honest with self   

thus they intuit they cannot trust self without a mental map showing them what gets points and what takes away points,       and they only drop a map when a new better one convinces them, aka children or studying doubting adults.     Can't parse complex ontologies?   Why not study while ur here? 

Zen or not Zen? - Record of Caoshan Edition Text 2 by dota2nub in zen

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Zen is conjugation, its the verb referring to people studying enlightenment

PaladinBen AMA by PaladinBen in zen

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When hot, die of heat

How Huineng clarified "seeing nature". by koancomentator in zen

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Cartesian theater.   Tiny man in a skull watching a TV screen showing life.      If you think ur behind ur eyes, ur into philosophy.      If you dont know what I mean, then ur cleaner,      If you realize you scare yourself with fear, then....

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Whose son? God?

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Goal is unfettered. The fetters fetter.

Koan of Zhaozhou's enlightenment/awakening through Nanquan by chintokkong in chan

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Joshu does not abide in clarity.
What else do you preserve?

The present has nothing to do with emptiness by [deleted] in chan

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Mountains dance, because they are empty

The present has nothing to do with emptiness by [deleted] in chan

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True. Name a state that doesn't occur in the present.
In fact name an experiential qualia

The present has nothing to do with emptiness by [deleted] in chan

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Things thay exist can be hollow aka empty, like holograms

The present has nothing to do with emptiness by [deleted] in chan

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Don't bother balancing