XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: allendotelldotbarker@gmail.com   
      
   On 01/27/2012 02:10 AM, i2i wrote:   
   >   
   > "Tsukino Usagi"  wrote in message news:jft07   
   $8rv$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> On 01/27/2012 10:04 AM, Sevenhundred Elves wrote:   
   >>> Tsukino Usagi wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 01/10/2012 01:15 AM, i2i wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "pi" wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:wZKdndLavP8Ok5bSnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@giganews.com...   
   >>>>>> i2i wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "pi" wrote in message   
   >>>>>>> news:pNmdnSdN-KBmT5fSnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   >>>>>>>> i2i wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> "pi" wrote in message   
   >>>>>>>>> news:XpGdncJGwP4l3pfSnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@giganews.com...   
   >>>>>>>>>> Is enlightenment most of all a state of being free?   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> pi   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> what else were you looking for ?   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> The Truth.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> but the truth about what exactly ?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> what exactly do you mean?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> pi   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> what exact truth would   
   >>>>> satisfy your search ?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> could you recognize what you   
   >>>>> deem to be truth from the standpoint   
   >>>>> of the slippery human dilemma ?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I am a fully enlightened zen master. I can prove it. Go ahead, ask me   
   >>>> something only a fully enlightened zen master would know.   
   >>>   
   >>> How do you become a fully enlightened Zen master?   
   >>>   
   >>> S.   
   >>   
   >> Asking questions is a good start.   
   >> There's a lot of little things,   
   >> So attention to detail is also required...   
   >> You can train that by learning to read Chiense or Japanese -- just a   
   suggestion there, not a   
   >> requirement. Although there are many cultural cues you won't appreciate (as   
   someone who doesn't   
   >> know the language) until you try.   
   >> Ultimately the best way to become a fully enlightened Zen master is to   
   already be one. But that   
   >> would require you to act like one -- but, to act like one before they   
   became a fully enlightened   
   >> Zen master. You're trying to emulate their success, remember? That is the   
   goal here, right?   
   >> Practice makes perfect.   
   >>   
   >> There's also a handful of secret techniques I will teach you if you pay me.   
   I won't discuss those   
   >> here. But they can be had for free if you dedicate your life to it, maybe,   
   drop out of school like   
   >> I did or forget about normal work. Hmm. Maybe that is, in a way, one of the   
   secrets. In the   
   >> immortal words of Japan's famous swordsmaster, "An art without Gokui is not   
   worth studying." Now,   
   >> be a good little american and wake the fuck up about all this, and you will   
   be WELL on your way.   
   >>   
   >> Trust me.   
   >   
   > nobody's buying it and if you could   
   > see how ridiculous you look trying   
   > to pull it off you'd run somewhere   
   > and puke. hth.   
      
   Maybe try to see it as comic relief.  ;-)   
      
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