None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.
Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.
There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.
So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.
All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.
The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.
Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.
We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.
We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.
Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.
The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.
Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.
There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.
When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.
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