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Trust It, and Enjoy the Ride!

Posted on Feb 6th, 2009 by Ted Biringer : Flatbed Sutra Ted Biringer

If you truly awaken, you will not be concerned with reality, you will not be enamoured with enlightened masters or teachers, you will not be tangled up in ideas about the rewards of spiritual practice. You will transcend conceptualization, alone and free, you will work and play without being caught up in things and ideas. The entire universe could shatter, and you would not be afraid. All the treasures of the world could be offered to you, and your joy would not be increased. Do you want to know why? It is because, you realize that all things are void. All things arise from the unnamable void, and flow back into it. The entire universe is nothing but the unnamable void, which is your own true mind and body. The myriad things are manifestations of the one unnamable void. Since they are like dreams, shadows or illusions, why would you try to grasp them and what could you possibly have to fear? Trust it, and enjoy the ride.

~The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing

by Ted Biringer

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The Stink of Zen

Posted on Feb 16th, 2009 by Ted Biringer : Flatbed Sutra Ted Biringer

Personally, I would like to obliterate the vast unnamable fathomless void and extinguish everything that stinks of spiritual practice. Pure and clear awareness is nothing but a booby trap, ceasing conceptualization is the blackest poison of all. Awakening and realization are two clumps of hazardous waste. All of these terms are like carrots dangled from the end of a stick; they can lead you in the right direction, but if you focus too closely on them, you will just become cross-eyed.

~From The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing

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