ZEN

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If you want to know what reality is, there is only one way to find out - that is to look and say:"I´m not going to believe what I have been told. I´m not going to  take anything second-hand."  We have too see for ourselves. Where are you? Where is yesterday? Where is tomorrow? Where is the history by which most of us identify ourselves? When we are asked who we are, we never respond directly; instead we always say who we were.

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And this is really very profound, because it shows that our so-called ego, our self-existence, is purely a phenomenon of the past. It has no reality in the present. If we carefully observe the nature of our present reality, we discover therein no ego. If we look carefully, we find that we don´t exist.

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Life´s immense richness  and marvels, just as they are now, are normally overlooked because we always think there is something else ahead.

Alan Watts "ZEN, The Supreme Experience", Vega 2002, US ISBN 1 84333 614 6

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Natti natti!

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Annelie Worgard 2019-04-01 12:14

Every thought should be followed by a "Is that really so" , a reflective "Is that really so" thought....then you can so many times see that a thought is like a cloud, it gets born, puff itself up,...and then just disappears leaving you with the blue sky.

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Svar från Khalad 2019-04-02 16:02

Tack Annelie! Känner du till Byron Katie kanske? Hälsningar/ Björn .T

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Annelie Worgard 2019-04-02 18:16

Ja och nej. Via omvägar, en annan lärare som brukar citera just detta ifrån henne. Och det är så bra...tycker jag, när jag fastnar i något så ibland kommer det här...."Men är det verkligen så"....och det hjälper, att ifrågasätta sig själv, sin egen tro, sin egen föreställningsvärld.

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Svar från Khalad 2019-04-02 22:08

Hennes fyrfrågetest är nyttiga övningar. Alla lever vi i våra egna, egentillverkade världar........

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