--- In [email protected], Zen Warrior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to agree with excerpt. Soley from my > persective, I have always felt that the highset ideal > or goal in Zen/Buddhism, or possibly any "religion" is > to achieve the ability to react to every single > moment, second, minute, event, situation(whatever it > may be), not with a blue-sky mind of dull-eyed > non-attachment, but instead with compassion, wisdom, > unconditional love, passion AND intelligence/common > sense. From my own initial experience during zazen(s), > I could never understand(or misunderstood) why we > needed to eradicate all thought and become like the > proverbial blank tape. If I wanted to do that, I could > just go back to drinking all the time.
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