Dear my brain

Dear my brain,

What's so wrong with being connected to everything?

What do you have to hide? Intimacy is not a choice; it's a fact of life.

No matter where I stand on the earth, I'm literally connected to all other creatures standing on earth.

There is no distance between you and them.

"Is someone going to criticize this post for not being zen? Or for some other reason?"

Let them!

Who's more delusional, me or them?

Life isn't a competition, brain. What's your game plan? To categorize every human you meet on a scale from "more deluded" to "less deluded", and organize your relationships based on that?

Don't be ridiculous.

 

You are REALLY good at creating things and then seeing the differences between things. Of course -- because you created them.

How about seeing the similarities between things? Or maybe stop separating things for a second and see how that feels?

No? You don't want to? You're scared of being obliterated by enlightenment?

Well, I'm afraid to tell you, you're going to be obliterated one way or another. It's like a choose your own adventure book where every page ultimately leads to death.

Death is happening now and always. Fear it or embrace it; you choose. Fear doesn't FEEL GOOD, does it, brain? No, it doesn't. So perhaps make a different choice.

 

What is the Buddhist thing... suffering is created by grasping, right? Which includes both clinging and aversion? Which are essentially the same motion?

Of course you never wanted to follow the eightfold path, and you also suck at zazen, apparently. What other options are there? Didn't Bodhidharma give some advice on this?

Don't forget your body, though. I know Dogen was talking about dropping off body and mind, but that's not quite right, is it?

Or is it?

Submitted March 05, 2018 at 07:54AM by charmander12345678 http://ift.tt/2FdJF4g