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The Importance of Zen Buddhism

Buddhism is not philosophy except in the most ancient sense of basic curiosity I prefer to call these disciplines ways of liberation ways of liberation from Maya and the following of them does not depend on believing in anything or obeying anything. It is a purely experimental approach to life it is something like a person who say has defective eyesight and is seeing spots and all sorts of illusions going to an ophthalmologist to correct his vision. Buddhism is therefore basically a correction of psychic vision to be dis enthralled by the game of Maya. The real you is the self capital S the self of the universe because at that level of one's existence one is not really separate from everything else

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