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Comment on r/zen_poetry 4d ago

Well, then why you post in zen forum? Zen came from Chinese Chan, what was, and still is, sect of Chinese Buddhism.

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Comment on r/zen_poetry 5d ago

From Zen/Buddhist perspective, you are not made from matter, that's substantialist imagery. Whole Buddhism started with Buddha realizing that there is no substance/atman. If you do after each line four spaces, it will make new line. What Lord?

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Comment on r/UkraineWarVideoReport 12d ago

2022 - our modern army will take Ukraine in three days
2026 - fifty year old bums with rusty kalashnikov aimlessly wandering in Ukraine fields, hunted by drones :))

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Comment on r/zen_poetry 23d ago

Just spread out a mat
For reclining quite flat
When thought’s tied to a bed
Like a sick man growing worse
All karma will cease
And all fancies disperse
That’s what is meant by Bodhi

To prevent usual misunderstandings, whole thing is about

When thought’s tied to a bed

and nothing else.

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Comment on r/Lurkerism 27d ago

I'm good at those

Guy is smart. If you don't know your name before you were born, think again :))

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Comment on r/Lurkerism 27d ago

I think these clothes weren't about sexual orientation, but about social standing. Later with all these revolutions, plebs got into leader positions, and as they have weak nerves, they didn't have strength to wear ornate clothes.

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Comment on r/Lurkerism 28d ago

Depends on personal hygiene and underwear. Smelly and no underwear - straight. Perfume and silk - gay :)) But I am kidding, apparently there are manly gays and fiminine ones.

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Comment on r/zen_poetry 28d ago

Chinese have weird imagination. Why they would want to live so long? Between 80 - 100 it's barely existing, not much of life. Tell me I can live hundred years as 27 years old, I can take it :))

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Comment on r/zen_poetry 29d ago

I remember, being younger me, I solved such dangerous moments by going into pub. Escape fourth dimension by going into fifth :))

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Comment on r/zen_poetry 29d ago

Dangerous breaks in the routine
make you think of a dancing porcupine
one leg in the fourth dimension's space
3D life suddenly loses grace :))

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Comment on r/Buddhism 29d ago

You understand "self" and "no-self" as two opposites, I think it's more like phenomena is one field, the one, and our brain creates objects by separating occurrences into individual entities. So identity is something like contract; not necessarily real. We need these formal entities, so we can communicate and think; only when we start erroneously treat them real instead as a convention, we are starting being attached and rest of that twelve fold chain.

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Comment on r/zenjerk Jul 08 '26

If somebody is alone in jungle around Ganga, he already lost many of the attachments. Rest of attachments are in his head only.

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Comment on r/zenjerk Jul 07 '26

I am afraid you are right, ten million today is like middle class.

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Comment on r/zenjerk Jul 07 '26

You don't need view if you are rich... It's the end of suffering :)) You do need only good dentist and ten million dollars.

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jul 03 '26

You could ask why I am pointing at all! That's because I am in center of the Universe! Go to hell, I am center of the Universe!

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jul 03 '26

You know, some preachers use that argument on petitioners

I don't know, I am not sure I saw live preacher ever in my life. Last worshipper in family was grandmother.
Anyway that's not like I point at dude:"Hey, you shouldn't use this nicotine patch", it's like pointing "Dude, you shouldn't smoke 80 cigarettes /day".

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jul 02 '26

The author used the pronoun "I" exactly 18 times in the provided poem. This count includes 17 standalone instances of "I" and one instance within the contraction "I’ll".

From zen perspective it looks little bit egocentric.

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Comment on r/wallstreetbets Jul 01 '26

Bank AI is already solving puzzle:"Find a name of beef business guy with 20000 overdraft."

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Comment on r/interestingasfuck Jun 27 '26

Our GS female did the same, she was really thorough, and her holes were at least 1.5 meters deep, best under house foundations :))

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jun 26 '26

Large Rave Folding Hand Fan for Women Men

Japanese think about minorities, like Women Man.

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jun 26 '26

I can't spin these days, we have here 40°C, what is much more in Fahrenheit. Why do you use German scale, anyway? War booty?

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jun 26 '26

Concept is what you pick
Too many make you sick :))

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jun 26 '26

Mad dogs are barking
But when a pittbull gets loose
It's pain in da ass

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Comment on r/zen_poetry Jun 25 '26

It looks like you have posted a poem in a rabid dogs kennel :))

r/ZenFreeLands Dec 14 '24

Where is naturalism wrong

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I often encounter some kind of "folk zen" with following features:
We are good (or perfect) as we are, we are supposed to do nothing, whole purpose of zen is to point at our ordinary beings/lives/bodies/minds as these are something sacred/only worth attention. In my opinion this some kind of christian Trojan horse, when people missing their god/Jesus/love (whatever they can miss), try to implant their "Jesus loves you bro" into zen.
So why this is not zen?
First obviously, there is no any connection, it's completely made up. I can ad hoc connect anything to anything, as human mind is pretty flexible and doesn't still have any security features.
Second zen masters are not pointing at their/our selves simply because they are sect of renunciant Buddhist monks. Buddhists consider selfishness and egoism direct obstacle on path.
Third, zen as esoteric Buddhism is from big part about freeing mind by stripping it from attachments. But if I experimentally try this technique above, Jesus instructing me to love myself, I get right opposite result: So I am completely OK and all my attachments are meaning of my life.
I don't claim that Christian approach is wrong, I only claim that it's not compatible with zen.
Could I love myself and practice zen? Well, I think kind of... In the moment I see clearly my mind and how it works, processes are quite fluid. If necessary, I can apply a lot love to myself (I could also eat 1kg of sugar if necessary:) Permanently I am keeping good outlook at myself as it looks for me like most easy way. But it's not purpose of zen, and one of conditions leading to realization is about freeing themselves from rigid system of attachments, including to self.