You're right. Stop the god damned bullying!

That's what enlightenment is all about.

We're brought up bullied. We're bullied by religion into submitting to a 'higher power'. We're bullied by our parents. We're bullied by society, suppressed by tradition and custom and etiquette. We're even bullied by science, which claims to have 'the facts' - according to its own judgement.

We're taught that right and wrong is defined externally, by someone or something else. We're taught to be humble, feel sorry, to accept direction. We're taught to confess, repent. We're taught that we are broken and need fixing. We're taught to bow down to authority. We're taught that all of this is right - that this higher power, and not us, is right - that bullying is right!

Fuck that! We can stand up on our own two feet. The true 'man of no rank' is not a piece of shit!

I'm fucking awesome. I bow down to nobody. I decide what is right and wrong in my world - I decide when I'm right or wrong. Nobody else on this planet or outside of it has any right to do that except me!

And same with you! You are fucking awesome. You are a god damned Buddha!

We're not awesome compared to someone or something else that is not awesome. This is absolute awesomeness, all around.

"But what about the serial killers?" you say... "We can't just let them decide what's right and wrong for themselves?"

The thugs and the criminals and the thieves and the liars... They were bullied too. They were taught to bully. They were taught that it is right. They think that is how to 'get stuff' - how to find happiness. They learned from the higher power forced upon them how to force their will upon others.

It doesn't have to be that way. You don't need someone else's wallet when you have your true nature.

You can decide on your own truth, and you can allow others to decide on theirs. Ultimately, you cannot control them. And nobody can control you.

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Sorry for bullying you with this post.

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Eminent worthies, in these three shouts, there is one shout that is an adamantine diamond sword, one shout that is a crouching lion, and one shout that is a test. If people can distinguish each one of them, then they can see great master Linji's way goes beyond ordinary sense - even Huangbo got slapped, even Dayu got punched. Even though two or three centuries have passed since then, I would admit that you can personally become his direct heirs.

After that, you can open up the door of nonduality, balancing the paths of the various masters, smashing falsehood and revealing truth, supporting the school and establishing the teaching, repairing the deteriorated order, freely exercising great knowledge and vision, with the eye of universal truth shining, decisively defeating the army of the devil without stirring from the fundamental state.

[shout] You should know there's a shout that doesn't act as a shout. When you get here, you have to have the adamantine eye to suddenly pick up before making a mess.

But tell me, eminent worthies - pick up what?

Submitted March 20, 2021 at 01:44AM by sje397 https://ift.tt/3vKKa0r