Buddist 3o years only got it 9 months

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02-22-2012, 07:05 PM

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MycoolFitz

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Buddist 3o years only got it 9 months

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I undertake the training rule to abstain from fermented drink that causes heedlessness.

02-22-2012, 07:09 PM

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Way to go, Fitz!

02-22-2012, 07:09 PM

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How long have you been buddhist for? I'm interested in learning more about it.

02-22-2012, 07:17 PM

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I've studied took vows but with drink it was not real. Great Buddhist sober books but had to actually finally do it. I am what I think not what I drank, so good now since May

02-23-2012, 02:59 PM

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Very, very cool man.

02-23-2012, 03:46 PM

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Namaste Fitz

02-23-2012, 03:48 PM

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Nanmaste

02-23-2012, 03:54 PM

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Right on bro! Whats your practice?

02-23-2012, 03:59 PM

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02-23-2012, 04:25 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by augustwest

Right on bro! Whats your practice?

Kind of this

One time, Zen Master Seung Sahn said:

I don't teach Korean or Mahayana or Zen. I don't even teach Buddhism. I only teach don't know. Fifty years here and there teaching only don't know. So only don't know, okay?

02-23-2012, 05:08 PM

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Master Seung Sahn's mantra for westerners: "Clear Mind. Don't Know"

02-23-2012, 05:14 PM

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Greetings, Fitz, from the Against The Stream sangha in LA.

I am not the hub of all things, but I believed I was. So I ran the axle of the universe through me. The result was dukkha. The hole out of alignment. And a very bumpy ride.

The path is much smoother today.

02-23-2012, 06:14 PM

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I just thought my s--t didn't stink, too much ego. Like vodka and viaden was meditating. Now I hold my puppy and just breathe. I tried to work sobriety and meditation now i just have to let it happen. Controll has been an issue. and tripping over my cushion. Had a tuff day and it was also very good. Don't know.

02-23-2012, 06:20 PM

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Welcome soberandgodless

02-24-2012, 04:06 PM

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Sometimes my mind is like a thicket, choked with stories of how it might be. As you remind us, Fitz, don't know is really how it might be. And that's empty. Which makes it a path.

Thank you.