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A zen student once went up to an old zen master and asked him the purpose of life, the Master said "Play". 

 

The student walked away disappointed 😂.

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"In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it"

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Idk what's funnier. The zen masters answer or the students response 😄.

"In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it"

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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We all play in our own way, don't we?  It's when you attach to play I think where the trap lies.  Play is not an attachment to play.  People who attach to play are like people who attach to anything else, they're dogged about it, they're controlling with it.  But what the Zen Master is talking about is Play not play.  He's talking about Transcendence.  He's talking about letting things be and looking at things through the lens of play as opposed to being transfixed on Truth.  It's a pointer when you have ears for that kind of teaching or when you're resonating with that kind of teaching.  Fun is fingers in the eyes to pretentious Truth stick up the rear, just ask any comedian.  Fun and Truth sit in a kind of weird relation, they're both here, so on some level they both have a say so, but how do they relate?  They seem to.  They merge on some level too.  

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On 8/22/2022 at 5:19 PM, Orb said:

A zen student once went up to an old zen master and asked him the purpose of life, the Master said "Play". 

 

On 8/29/2022 at 8:01 PM, Mandy said:

How dare you make a mockery of this work? 

 

On 8/29/2022 at 8:11 PM, Orb said:

banned

 

There's a joke about 'truth or dare' somewhere here, but I'm too tired to come up with one.

 

If you aren't outrageously happy, you're functioning at a fraction of your potential.

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This is almost two years old why you gotta bring it back 😭😭🙏

"In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it"

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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On 5/21/2024 at 12:58 PM, Orb said:

This is almost two years old why you gotta bring it back 😭😭🙏

 

Is there a problem with bringing back old threads?  I don't see the issue.  It's like a problemless problem to keep with the Zen theme.

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1 minute ago, Joseph Maynor said:

 

Is there a problem with bring back old threads?  I don't see the issue.

Nah, just felt weird revisiting what 2 years younger Orb posted. 😅

"In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it"

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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