I was walking along the street one morning and happened to just kinda notice what the whole Buddhist philosophical system was all about.
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[But that was not] a kensho experience. I have never had a kensho experience. I hope I never do. I've never come across anyone who claimed to have had one of those who could convince me it was anything worth experiencing.
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[It's just that] if you practice zazen long enough there may come a time when you see through most of the philosophical problems you've held for most of your life.
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[But the] only thing you understand when you solve your philosophical problems is that
this is just
this. That life is what it is, that you are what you are, that the universe is what it is. Get me? You can't even explain what the universe is. It just is what it is. That's it.
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The main reason we miss it, though, might be that we're just too damned clever for our own good. Maybe "clever" isn't the best word. Perhaps "intellectual" is closer to the mark.