Thursday, October 8, 2009

Nirvana and Enlightenment #113

The world provides us with tons of Mind Stuff.
The need to be:
bigger,
better,
stronger,
thinner,
smarter,
richer,
more attractive.

Zen provides us with tons of Mind Stuff:
The need to be:
purer,
less materialistic,
less desirous,
more meditative,
more enlightened.

Mind Stuff is Mind Stuff.
NIRVANA is beyond Mind Stuff.

Does the average person ever question who they are or why they are the way they are?

In Zen, it is taught that the simplest is the purist.
Yet, the enlightened Zen teacher takes away simplicity and replaces it with the illusion of Mind Stuff.

NIRVANA is far from Mind Stuff.
Even that Mind Stuff provided by Zen.

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