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1. They are great belief-deconstructors
2. They are not-so-great in the area of preparation to digest such deconstructions. Some zen folks, without any ill will whatsoever but out of ignorance, will speak against them (preparatory techniques), leaving people in a limbo o' **** that they might never get out of within their life-times.
3. If you read them and you are not spontaneously enlightened, it means you have to work. Solly...
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Ive red many zen writtings. Eventually I dropped it, I find most of it is unuseful ****.
And Im a zen guy... I think zen is all practical (at least in my case).
Most of zen writtings are abstract and provoking, some are downright obscure.
I feel that nowadays, we can manage more straight forward info. Stuff that appeals to our logic and and intuition.
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Information today is more readily available than any other time in our recorded history. The problem remains finding not all the books with all there is to know about spirituality (you could fill a library with those) but the books you need to move forward now.
Tricky affair... it's not the same reading Jiddu Krishnamurti first and then all the rest, for instance.
I tend to recommend to people to start with Journey to Ixtlan, coupled with Autobiography of a Yogi.
Then they can move on to Osho, Nissar, Ramana, Jiddu and many many others.
Every teacher tends to come with their share of beliefs and their share of nay sayings.
What I'm warning against up there is starting with an **** saying "I the non-guru say that
no gurus nor additional teachings are necessary and this is final."
But in the end it's about what you are looking for. Everybody has a reason of their own for entering this affair of the paths of the Spirit.
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To tell you the truth. If you read all of Castanedas books,
and get real familiar with them, you dont need anything else.
Basically, CC was able to clarify the missing links in my game...
His writtings gave meaning to everything else I red.
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Blue totem wrote:
To tell you the truth. If you read all of Castanedas books,
and get real familiar with them, you dont need anything else.
Basically, CC was able to clarify the missing links in my game...
His writtings gave meaning to everything else I red.
Does this means that everybody else in the whole world should walk the same road you walked to reach the place you reached? Do you believe everybody else with spiritual drives in the world wants to reach the same understanding you want to reach?
That's the thing you see... every individual is a galaxy of personal experience and has a particular road to walk.
Motivations can be very different and so can be personal objectives.
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GS said : "every individual is a galaxy of personal experience and has a particular road to walk."
Yes! Yes! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!... a true kitten's roar!
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The Fool wrote:GS said : "every individual is a galaxy of personal experience and has a particular road to walk."
Yes! Yes! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!... a true kitten's roar!
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Its tea time.
Have a cup...
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Grand Spec, I agree wholeheartedly with your first two points, but with the last one, eh, not so much..
3. If you read them and you are not spontaneously enlightened, it means you have to work. Solly...
The intent of the writings is fester in your gut until the moment is ripe for spontaneous awakening.
When it comes then the teachings unfold to help guide you through a new world that has no labels or reference points.
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