a  synthesized  awakening experience

the bottom line is can we embrace being hurt in an intelligent constructive way  : o )

this is of course beyond you lot  : o )

this is the real letting go of the self, not the spaced out blather of zen and advaita and the arrant nonsense of christianity

herman melville in  jerusalem

i was thinking that advaita, zen and religion generally were like melville's experience of jerusalem

all the gloss of a lot of history and the associations and stories in the bible, but the reality is an unattractive arid city with alot of stone, muggers and petty thieves ; O)

and
actually

the

heartless

brutality

if

you

can

see

it

:

o

)

the fifth noble truth is anyone who believes the four noble truths is so immersed in bullshit they don't know what the truth is !

:

o

)

the fifth noble truth is anyone who believes the four noble truths is so immersed in bullshit they don't know what truth is !

:

o

)

brad warner  complains  to the 7th patriarch

my retranslation of two sentences from dogen's bendowa