The ultimate cosmic joke is that when you see the answer to all of this it's so fucking obvious - literally too obvious to put into words. So what good is awakening anyway?
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It means it is a very basic and preliminary teaching that is also often refereed to as a "stock" phrase" in the sutras because it appears so often. What you said about taking the appropriate action in a situation very much reminds me of this.
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Ah, thanks for that explanation. Just to clarify, I'm am by no means taking credit for things the Buddha already said 2,500 years ago. I just wish people paid more attention to it, so I'm paraphrasing.
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Yeah. I enjoyed what you said. I also wish people paid more attention to very basic things. It is interesting that so many people claim whatever esoteric knowledge they prefer when they do not know the basics.
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That was very well put. It's just so much easier to ground oneself in stories than to pay attention to the body and to investigate every experience with equal curiosity and skepticism. (Buddhism in particular is also a story. I'm not so sure whether it's a useful story anymore.)
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