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Ep. 2 – Dropping Out From Karma

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Zen Training - How to Overcome Your Block

In zen training, in its initial stages, the master discourages intellectualization. But later on, you can realize that the process of thinking is also what is. Thoughts in their own domain are as real as rocks. Words have their own reality as much as sky and water. And so they lead you eventually to the point where you intellectualize and think in an immediate way. Go on and ask then a further problem. How about thinking about thinking? Wouldn't that be pretty far off? Here is a person removed from life because he's in the intellectual world,. He's all n living in symbols.

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