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Old 04-14-2002, 05:20 AM   #1
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Post How does one get unenlightened?

How's that for a ko-an?
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You can't. (Barring a severe head injury of course)
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Hmm...define enlightenment.
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Spring dies when winter comes

(sounds like a Zen style answere to me
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Being lost isn't a matter of not knowing where you are. Everywhere you go, you are there.

Being lost is a matter of forgetting how you got there in the first place.
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I would bet that watching World Wrestling Foundation and listening to country & western music exclusively for about six months would unenlighten the Buddha himself.
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Oh, sorry. Indifference already used that same answer.
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Ok...that's funny.
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Some believe we are all born enlightend. It is the process of "learning" to adapt to society which draws us from the true path.
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"He who sleeps with dogs, wakes with fleas."
(I can't find the author of this quote)

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