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Ep. 5 – Zen Bones

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Zen Poem - You Cannot Achieve It by Not Thinking

All those who try to realize zen by doing nothing about it are still trying desperately to find it, and are on the wrong track. There is another zen poem which says, you cannot attain it by not thinking. And if you're it, you don't need to make anything of it. There's nothing to look for. The point is that we come to an understanding of this, what i call such ness, only through being completely here. We abandon religion, we abandon meditations, we abandon this, that and the other - and just a er live it up anyhow.

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