Do you deserve to be enlightened?

What if you are:

1. ....a coward?
2. ...a liar?
3. ...not smart enough?
4. ...believe @#$# you know isn't true?
5. ....aren't very education?
6. ...aren't very creative?
7. What if you aren't an interesting person?

All the feuds I've ever gotten into with people in this forum... and there are soooo many... have been about these questions for them.

If anything, it's super clear that in my approach to Zen I'm a weirdo. Like, the Gonzo of this Muppet Family weird.

1. It would never occur to me FOR ANY REASON to ask ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS
2. My passion has always been going to school. I don't even care what the classes are. I don't care what grade I get. I would prefer it if everybody in the class was better than me at everything.
3. I have no interest in what other people admire... like, not at all.

I was talking with my mother about Bohemian Rhapsody being criticized for being "too long"... it will never play on the radio they said. OR... Mr. Cash, you can't record an album in Folsom Prison, Christians won't buy it. OR... What's the book called? Dune? No, we aren't going to publish anything like that. The history lesson is pretty clear... just do your thing. People aren't going to understand it. I know this. Why doesn't everyone know this? Shropshire Lad. Nobody would publish it. Just do your thing. It doesn't have to be good enough...

 YOU ARE ORIGINALLY GOOD ENOUGH 

But more to the point... all that stuff is found in Zen texts. There are cowards and liars and the not-smart-enough.

1. ....a coward... Xinagyan
2. ...a liar... Cuiyan
3. ...not smart enough?... Yangshan
4. ...believe @#$# you know isn't true?... Deshan
5. ....aren't very education?... Huineng.
6. ...aren't very creative?... Layman Pang
7. What if you aren't an interesting person... Juzhi

If you don't study Zen though... if you just to use r/Zen to make it seem like you know things, then obviously you'll miss all that.

We have posers in this forum who are so so desperate to be the teacher that they cheat themselves out of learning anything, studying anything, or being anything interesting to anyone... they blame me or the mods... they claim gaslighting and ego this or that.

They can't bow down because they don't like themselves.

Submitted February 18, 2023 at 07:24AM by ewk https://ift.tt/mLTQckO