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Zen Trick: How to Stop Thinking About Not Thinking

When we start thinking about thinking being aware of being aware this is what is called in the japanese the observing self I watch myself all the time think you're in a hopeless mess. This is the price that human beings pay for having become self-conscious anxiety and guilt anxiety because am I sure that I thought this out sufficient to carefully when I left the house did I turn off the gas stove? The Zen trick it's to put you into this situation in a very crucial way to make a very strong effort not to think that's Zazan sit let your senses operate and be responsive to whatever they may be around but don't think about itbut now this is already thinking I'm

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