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Meditation Journal

10:30 AM. Woke up.

Making some french toast. Can't decide how much I should make. Is it a choice? Maybe I have already made it? Maybe the question isn't HOW but WHY? Is the french toast being made at all? Would a different state change what my french toast represents? Does the french toast want for more? Is the syrup the yin to its yang? Can one exist without the other? Is adding fruit the path to enlightenment? Maybe i'm not making french toast at all, I am only making more of me, projecting myself into this loaf of bread. Are we enemies? Should I destroy what exists or seek to keep things out of existence? Do I exist? Is the french toast making decisions about me?

I will continue to meditate as I sip my coffee in my underwear.


I know you guys are jealous, you can't all be as enlightened as me. But I think I figured out where nowornover is coming from. Just ask yourself the most inane silliest thing that comes to your head and substitute real knowledge seeking with blathering about anything. The more incoherent, the better.
 
Brombadil said:
I will continue to meditate as I sip my coffee in my underwear.


I know you guys are jealous, you can't all be as enlightened as me. But I think I figured out where nowornover is coming from. Just ask yourself the most inane silliest thing that comes to your head and substitute real knowledge seeking with blathering about anything. The more incoherent, the better.
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Why, then, is the coffee wearing your underwear?


While you're contemplating on the meaning of this, I'll just help myself to your freshly made french toast with syrup and butter.
 
Brombadil said:
10:30 AM. Woke up.

Making some french toast. Can't decide how much I should make. Is it a choice? Maybe I have already made it? Maybe the question isn't HOW but WHY? Is the french toast being made at all? Would a different state change what my french toast represents? Does the french toast want for more? Is the syrup the yin to its yang? Can one exist without the other? Is adding fruit the path to enlightenment? Maybe i'm not making french toast at all, I am only making more of me, projecting myself into this loaf of bread. Are we enemies? Should I destroy what exists or seek to keep things out of existence? Do I exist? Is the french toast making decisions about me?

I will continue to meditate as I sip my coffee in my underwear.


I know you guys are jealous, you can't all be as enlightened as me. But I think I figured out where nowornover is coming from. Just ask yourself the most inane silliest thing that comes to your head and substitute real knowledge seeking with blathering about anything. The more incoherent, the better.
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You know, I've been all over France. I've biked the Loire Valley, visited the Alsace, been to Paris a number of times. I've never, ever seen French toast on any menu. It's funny.
 
Brombadil said:
LMAO.

I climbed the eternity stairs in my sleep last night and entered the zen palace, I didn't see you their, how can you have so much power?
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Another excellent question! While we sit and meditate on that, please help yourself to another BVD-adorned cup of coffee.
 
nowornever said:
This topic reveals what you actually do about your practice. To write is easy, to practise is true. The more you practise the more religious you become. Are you your body? Are you your mind? Are you this moment of life?
I do half-prostrations which take 10 minutes so what I wrote down WAS possible. If you share what you do/promise, it is more probable to be fullfilled(that's why some of us take precepts in public).
No more formal practice today. And you?
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So it's like playing the piano then?

To me, it sounds like you are overly concerned with the externals. If this is the case, I predict you will quit when the "warm and fuzzies" associated with "practice" stop.
 
nowornever said:
Prostration is a full bow. Small I bows to Big I.
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False.

Full prostrations involve extending the arms fully, and rotating the palms under the feet of the Buddha. Half prostrations are as described above, the body does not fully extend, but the forehead must touch the ground.

There is a simple prostration involving just the hands and lowering the head, but you specifically claimed you were doing the half prostrations.
And even the simple ones have to follow the rule I referred to above. You claim to have passed 100 tests for zen enlightenment, how is it you don't even know the most basic things about Buddhism?

You may as well get used to the idea that any of the stuff you make up is going to be debunked by somebody here who has taken the time to do research.

That's how the whole 'skeptical' thing works.
 
nowornever is just a forum boy...
living in his lonely world
he took the meditation train going aaaannnywhere.....
 
Last night I sat 1 round of zazen after a toilet before sleeping.
3 hours ago in Warsaw Zen Centre(24 Malowiejska Street) I saw the smoke of a chymney of the 2-month solo retreat cottage of Sensei Andrew Charnecki. I heard him hiting the moktak. My friend thru the window saw him sitting the other day. I wish I were like him.
non
 
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