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Zen Discipline: How to Be Comfortable Under Any Situation
The discipline of zen is to enable you to act without watching yourself we would say unself-consciously but uh japanese are as terrified of this as we are they think and we think if i don't. Japan is indeed a terribly self-conscious culture where everybody is always watching themselves and having their four second thoughts about everything. There's nothing about zen discipline which is masochistic it isn't to beach your body because your body is bad and there's a creation of the devil or something has nothing to do with that it is how to be comfortable under all circumstances.
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