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Zen
Feb 6, 2013 22:35:36 GMT
Post by malk103 on Feb 6, 2013 22:35:36 GMT
I read something yesterday that put the whole inner peace quest thing of following the path to the top of the mountain sort of statements into perspective. My favourite one used to be how it didn't matter which path you took to the top but the view was all the same.
Now for my newest favourite thinking point:
The only Zen you find on top of mountains is the Zen you bring there...
What do you think - or your favourite thinking point?
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Zen
Feb 7, 2013 6:49:44 GMT
Post by garage on Feb 7, 2013 6:49:44 GMT
Why should anyone tell you anything? Being in room with someone does it rub off?
I hope you enjoy the journey because you will never get answers from someone else if you do not look within you have no hope.
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Zen
Feb 7, 2013 11:18:38 GMT
Post by jimlukelkc on Feb 7, 2013 11:18:38 GMT
Surroundings can certainly influence your state of mind but if you are unfocused or in turmoil internally, calm can only come internally. How you arrive there is too individual to generalise.
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Zen
Feb 7, 2013 12:48:21 GMT
Post by kensei on Feb 7, 2013 12:48:21 GMT
The only Zen you find on top of mountains is the Zen you bring there... Going some place special can influence your state of mind, but its false and fleating, why bother finding peace ONLY when on the top of a mountain...you wont live up their...I think? Also, One has to realize, as was stated earlier, hearing someone say something is much different than feeling it yourself. I can talk about getting a massage and to some extent it may relax you a bit, but until you get one you wont experience the things I have just experience. Zen is not a state of mind, Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddism that can be translated as Absorption or Meditative state...the term you are looking for is Satori or a state of enlightenment!...and even these moments are fleeting!
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Feb 7, 2013 14:13:09 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2013 14:13:09 GMT
Just picked one up from a google search of zen sayings.
Everyday is a good day.
I like that one. Very simple approach to each new day. So long as its not the day you get run over by a bus!
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Feb 7, 2013 18:25:30 GMT
Post by kensei on Feb 7, 2013 18:25:30 GMT
Just picked one up from a google search of zen sayings. Everyday is a good day. I like that one. Very simple approach to each new day. So long as its not the day you get run over by a bus! is that a real bus or a symbolic bus..... ;D
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Zen
Feb 8, 2013 0:24:52 GMT
Post by nathanso on Feb 8, 2013 0:24:52 GMT
Kind of like, if you get run over by a bus in a forest with no one else around, does it still hurt?
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Feb 8, 2013 7:19:23 GMT
Post by garage on Feb 8, 2013 7:19:23 GMT
I am pink, therefore I am spam.
The bus doesn't hurt because you have no one to tell.
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Feb 8, 2013 11:20:07 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2013 11:20:07 GMT
Or a coach...
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