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he was a self-proclaimed spiritual entertainer
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indeed
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NounsareVerbs posted:

babyfinland posted:
ya things that the greatest minds humanity has produced have been pondering and debating since the dawn of history are resolvable with such insipid answers as that.

stop talking bullshit about a simple subject which you obviously know nothing about

also lungfish is the least zen person i've ever read in my life and the fact that he namedrops Watts is hilarious


You haven't actually met me.

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You Hyoo-mons do not Understand what you do not Know.
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Goethestein posted:

Cycloneboy posted:
The best religion to convert to is Shinto, since it Actually True.

spirits and gods arent real

They are though. Gonna go drink w/ a kami, bro.

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Instead of talking shit about Watts for some dumb reason maybe you should chill out and watch some of his videos.

Zen is about clearing your mind of thoughts and appreciating your immediate physical environment. I find it an indispensable tool in overcoming painful emotional episodes where my thoughts keep returning to the same fixations. It is mental hygiene, flushing out the mind so you can begin again. It is necessary rest and relaxation for a weary frontal lobe. It is the cure for obsessive thinking. It is grounding, a return to reality. A termination of unnecessary and unpleasant ideological fury.

I do not encourage people to try to live in a Zen-like fashion 100% of the time as oftentimes we must get deep into thought in order to solve problems. But we must also realize when it is time to take a break and then start over.

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windows media player has this cool thing called a visualizer
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Buddhism is a lie invented by a whiny rich kid because the world was so terrible that he couldn't accept it.
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Cycloneboy posted:
Buddhism is a lie invented by a whiny rich kid because the world was so terrible that he couldn't accept it.



Communism too

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babyfinland posted:

Cycloneboy posted:
Buddhism is a lie invented by a whiny rich kid because the world was so terrible that he couldn't accept it.

Communism too

The difference is that communists try to change the world rather than pretend like it's not real??

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
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a wandering monk came across a starving tigress and her cubs. Rather than let the animals perish he decided to offer his own body to feed them. He approached the tigress but it was too weak from hunger to attack him. So he drew a knife and cut his own throat.
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Fucker posted:
a wandering monk came across a starving tigress and her cubs. Rather than let the animals perish he decided to offer his own body to feed them. He approached the tigress but it was too weak from hunger to attack him. So he drew a knife and cut his own throat.



That Used To Be Us.

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Fucker posted:
a wandering monk came across a starving tigress and her cubs. Rather than let the animals perish he decided to offer his own body to feed them. He approached the tigress but it was too weak from hunger to attack him. So he drew a knife and cut his own throat.



cool dude imo

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buddhism is a sinister death cult and western buddhists are overprivileged orientalists who deserve to be gunned down in the streets. imo
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KELNOR THE OVERWASP posted:

Pornography is not just a matter of profit and exploitation, it is anti-woman hate speech. More extreme pornography is to male-supremacist terrorism what a beheading video is to religious terrorism.
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communism is a religion, its basically demystified christianity
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naw christianity is about licking boot
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deadken posted:
buddhism is a sinister death cult and western buddhists are overprivileged orientalists who deserve to be gunned down in the streets. imo

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Zen has nothing to say about individual morality. This fallacy is extraordinarily widespread among western new age orientalists - and I can see why popularized precepts would leave a bitter taste in your mouths.

lungfish posted:
I find it an indispensable tool in overcoming



I don't know if you've actually ever met a Zen teacher but you'd probably get hit with a big stick for saying something like that.

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NounsareVerbs posted:
Zen has nothing to say about individual morality. This fallacy is extraordinarily widespread among western new age orientalists - and I can see why popularized precepts would leave a bitter taste in your mouths.

lungfish posted:
I find it an indispensable tool in overcoming



I don't know if you've actually ever met a Zen teacher but you'd probably get hit with a big stick for saying something like that.


I've listened to a Zen teacher, his name is Alan Watts. Go ahead and supply your own explanation, please, you Zen master you.

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Typical mystical horseshit. Keep your empty criticism to yourself.

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God this forum is boring, I can't believe you shit heads are letting Tom post idiotic shit like "the inherent truth of islam is self evident" or some dumb shit like that, reminder that the two crazy muslims both think that the Quran is so well written it must be a mircale and also muhammad was illiterate and conquered tons of shit therefore god is the only explanation.

lol islam is not self-reaffirming, fucking Tahrif, it's nothing except for dogmatic circular logic, the quran is correct therefore everything written in the quran is correct, even though the quran itself doesn't actually claim that the tanakh and gospels have been corrupted and in fact the concept of tahrif only surfaced in the 12th century ad after some muslim scholars decided to actually compare the Quran to the Tora and Gospels and found plenty of inconsistencies, which are of course impossible because muhammad bleated like a donkey and it was a revelation (it is mentioned in a sahih hadith, fo real) so someone between 200ad and 650ad found all copies of the gospels and the OT and magically corrupted ALL of them w/o leaving any trace of such a tremendous occurance.
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Oh I thought this was the Buddhism thread but I guess the two of you want to make it about the Israeli who should not be prohibited from posting.

Very well, he is completely correct there and nobody agrees with you two with regard to Islam.
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God this forum is boring, I can't believe you shit heads are letting Tom post idiotic shit like "the inherent truth of islam is self evident" or some dumb shit like that, reminder that the two crazy muslims both think that the Quran is so well written it must be a mircale and also muhammad was illiterate and conquered tons of shit therefore god is the only explanation.

lol islam is not self-reaffirming, fucking Tahrif, it's nothing except for dogmatic circular logic, the quran is correct therefore everything written in the quran is correct, even though the quran itself doesn't actually claim that the tanakh and gospels have been corrupted and in fact the concept of tahrif only surfaced in the 12th century ad after some muslim scholars decided to actually compare the Quran to the Tora and Gospels and found plenty of inconsistencies, which are of course impossible because muhammad bleated like a donkey and it was a revelation (it is mentioned in a sahih hadith, fo real) so someone between 200ad and 650ad found all copies of the gospels and the OT and magically corrupted ALL of them w/o leaving any trace of such a tremendous occurance.



LETS KEEP TO TOPIC THANKS

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im a dumb cosmopolitan that reduces all religions to philosophy and predictably chooses atheism in the wake of such pedantry. i know this, and yet i can't do a damn thing about it *sips beer, looks longingly into the sky*
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animedad posted:
im a dumb cosmopolitan that reduces all religions to philosophy and predictably chooses atheism in the wake of such pedantry. i know this, and yet i can't do a damn thing about it *sips beer, looks longingly into the sky*



what about socrates and plato

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atheism
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Impper posted:
atheism


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hey Crow I put your quote about "SOmetimes I get so mad I suck my own dick" - Son on a big board at my job and they almost fired me as a result ahehah
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hey Crow I put your quote about "SOmetimes I get so mad I suck my own dick" - Son on a big board at my job and they almost fired me as a result ahehah


Wahahahaha dont forget to say it in vietnamese accent at work nw

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hahaha if you get fired for it you gotta give him some of your severance package.
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Impper posted:
hey Crow I put your quote about "SOmetimes I get so mad I suck my own dick" - Son on a big board at my job and they almost fired me as a result ahehah

why would you do that?

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Cycloneboy posted:
why would you do that?


BEcause fuck you thats why.

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Crow posted:
Cycloneboy posted:
why would you do that?

BEcause fuck you thats why.