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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13rnwho/observing_without_making_a_nest
Post Summary:
Just being the way you naturally are – whether you're talking or keeping quiet, moving around or sitting still – and not ornamenting it with lots of branches and leaves: this is the great gate to freedom. But to ford that river your idealist philosophies must be dead, your familiarities forgotten, your dispositions vanished, your opinions withered away. Somebody with half a speck of an idea of his own mind can't get there. -Mingben
Then there's these two passages from Huangbo:
It is better to make offerings to a spiritual man who is free from mind-attachment' than to make offerings to all the Buddhas in the ten quarters. Why? Because to be free from mind-attachment means to be free from all forms of imagination.
Zen Teaching: Amazon has Illlusory Man and Huang-Po
Post Cast Overview: The itch to attain. What about people who experience life differently. What sort of difference. How do people bridge the differences gap. Itch after enlightenment. Satisfaction vs itch to interview.
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