Thoughts on Zen?
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As in the school of Buddhism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen
I like learning about Zen, although my attempts at meditating have not been successful, especially the way they do it. I also find Zen philosphy fascinating although it's so paradoxical it's hard to get into. But I like listening to recordings of Alan Watts speak.
When I mention Buddhism to people they say they find it depressing and nihilistic which I don't get.
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age"
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