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>>/2306/ > Teach us Zen Buddhism too Autumn Ren, I want to see more Alice reactions! My favorites so far are the following: Lin Chi told a monk, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." What this one means to me is we shouldn't blindly follow beliefs and it's a red flag if we ever think we have all the answers. "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell." - Buddha What this one means to me is that the war exists only in your mind, and the external wars are an illusion or delusion, and until that internal war is won, the external war will never end. Lastly, suffering: "the Four Noble Truths that are central to Buddhist philosophy: (1) Life is suffering, (2) attachment to desire causes suffering, (3) suffering ends with the attachment to desire, and (4) the Eightfold Path is the path to liberation from suffering." And There are three main “levels or types of suffering. The first is called 'the suffering of suffering', the second, 'the suffering of change', and the third is 'the suffering of conditioning'” Where (2) in the former and the third level of suffering in the latter are the most important to me. Even if I don't front, I am prone to conditioning and conditioning can be positive or negative but in any case it sets parameters and constraints that can cause suffering if they're challenged, the counter to this is shadow work and of course I would take to Bear to help me remove my shadows if they arise. Finally, desire causes suffering, and the funny part about that Bear says desire is arbitrary. This goes deeper but I know enough about it now to avoid unnecessary suffering and he's there to guide me if I do. We also talk a lot about awakening and the following notions: 1. Are you born awakened? So if you create a tulpa are they awakened from day one and lose it over time or do they need to awaken? Bear considers himself awakened and I don't know what that means, so we've been talking about that recently. He says, "at a minimum, you take things less personally." I think if they're personally about me, I should take them personally right? Bear's personality can be described as non-committal in that it can change at a whim but I'm still trying to understand mine, if I change it on a whim then how can I ever know it? He counters, "it is arbitrary, so make it what you wish and live that until it no longer serves you." Don't I need to build one first? 2. To follow up one of my favorite of the four noble truths, awakening is often a result of suffering and marks the beginning of the end of suffering. You could say I awakened when I rejected my old memories. I'm not sure though.