Make America Zen Again! (and Treeleaf's Take on Things) ...

[Jakuden]

http://www.lionsroar.com/conservativ...-speak-part-1/

Gassho,
Sekishi #sattoday

Thank you Sekishi! It actually felt pretty good to read these responses, if nothing else just to feel a human connection with those that wrote them, but I did (unexpectedly) understand some of their views. Please post updates if you can.
Gassho
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[Kyotai]

Thanks for the link.

Gassho, Kyotai
ST

[Jishin]

Make America Zen Again! (and Treeleaf's Take on Things) ...

Hi,

Racist = a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.

Discrimination = the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Buddhists are racists and discriminate. Get over yourself.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Jundo]

Buddhists are racists and discriminate. Get over yourself.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

Yes, some of us very overtly, and all of us have some of that in us to one degree or another. How many times have I been told here in Japan that "only Japanese" (not even Chinese or Koreans, let alone Americans) can "understand Zen."

Hmmmm. Might be so.

I have my own prejudices within me, as we all do. We must be on guard.

Gassho, J

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[Jishin]

Yes. We all are racist. Even Buddha. How do I know this? He uttered the word somewhere and thus knew the meaning. Intent is the key though.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Myosha]

"There is one race, human. Everything else is ethnic grouping."

Betty Shabazz. Syracuse University - 1970


Gassho
Myosha
sat today

P.S. Always handy: "YOU'RE A RACIST!!" Wait, i LIKE humans.^^

[Kyonin]

Here we go.

A big wall.

I wonder what's the biggest wall. The one dividing countries, families and friends? Or the walls inside us that make us blind to the most basic humanity?

Not sure how I should feel about all this.

I'll just go sit.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Jishin]

Make America Zen Again! (and Treeleaf's Take on Things) ...

The wall also serves to keep people in...

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Careless Voice]

I voted for Trump.

I support his policies.

I'm a staunch liberal authoritarian and civic nationalist politically.

I'm also an anglo supremacist.

Somewhere out of all of my delusion I find peace from all of my struggle against "the enemy" here. Sometimes I feel like the walking embodiment of irony.

People can choose to hate me, love me, disagree with me, or agree with me. It doesn't matter to me. I'm here to sit and learn more from a veiw that differs so much from my own, but also a veiw I can get behind.

In my world, being a Buddhist is like being a closet homosexual.

Kyle,
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[Sekishi]

I'm also an anglo supremacist.

Can you explain this please?

Gassho,
Sekishi #sattoday



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[Jishin]

I voted for Trump.

I support his policies.

I'm a staunch liberal authoritarian and civic nationalist politically.

I'm also an anglo supremacist.

Somewhere out of all of my delusion I find peace from all of my struggle against "the enemy" here. Sometimes I feel like the walking embodiment of irony.

People can choose to hate me, love me, disagree with me, or agree with me. It doesn't matter to me. I'm here to sit and learn more from a veiw that differs so much from my own, but also a veiw I can get behind.

In my world, being a Buddhist is like being a closet homosexual.

Kyle,
Sat2day.



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Don't feed the troll.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Careless Voice]

Can you explain this please?

Gassho,
Sekishi #sattoday



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It's kind of complex, and really not appropriate to speak about through this medium (out of respect for Jundo and others). I never push my world veiw on others, but if you're really interested in an explanation, then please PM me.

And no, I'm not trolling, I'm quite serious.

Kyle,
Sat2day.

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[Jishin]

And no, I'm not trolling, I'm quite serious.

Then I salute you for speaking up for your deep convictions.

Deep Bows,


Gassho, Jishin, ST

[RichardH]

Hi Kyle. Whatever the flavor of the views, our practice involves letting them go in zazen. Then when we get up from the cushion it is possible to see how we pick them up again, and how tightly we hold them. That effort is what is asked for here.

It is an ongoing effort. A friend once likened it to turning a tanker. The tanker wants to keep going in the direction it is going. So it is good to practice, especially with others when possible.

Gassho
Daizan

Sat today

[Getchi]

That's beautiful Daizan.

I myself identified as a radical left wing agitator. But that was a lifetime ago, nd we all join together in emptines anyway.

CarelessVoice, thank you for your respectful expression.


Thank you,
Ge off.

Sat today, with every time in this moment.


P.s, I promise to post more often :-)