(02-22-2017, 09:51 AM)chaosvrgn Wrote: It's the notion that you can't become zen by pursuing and accomplishing your goals. The notion that pursuing external wealth is somehow "wrong" and "un-zen," and being broke, directionless and without women is somehow "zen" and "alpha."
This is so true. I love the Sedona Method view which is that you can pursue enlightenment through the achievement of goals but the trick is to get your goals by dropping your obsessive attachments and aversions to them. That's essentially what the healing in subs is doing.
Lester Levenson said that you can't become a free master till you become a winner, because if you're not a winner it means you have aversions to the world and to winning. He often asked his students who were having results with inner peace if they were achieving their goals, and he asked the ones who were achieving their goals if they were happy and peaceful. Because both sides of the coin are important because they show us our attachments and aversions. And that's the problem with a lot of modern day "new-age zen masters" is that they work on their attachments to the world but they don't touch their aversions. Going towards external success is one of the best ways of dropping our aversions.
Getting external success also shows us that we can, and makes us realise that the satisfaction we feel from it is only temporary although there's nothing wrong with temporary.
Turning super saiyan.
