Zen Shmen

Once in a while I'll hear some Teacher say something that inspires me enough to make make me wanna make a T-shirt out of it.

I just buy cheap white "Wife-beater" undershirts in the Men's section and print out a saying in large font and put it between the front and back and it shows right thru. Then I use a Sharpie and write over it. I have several.

But I'm particularly fond of Jun Po's "How is this gonna get me laid?" which states his frustration with the Map vs. Territory problem, and which I completely resonate with. And I've decided to put that in conjunction with my own opener stating my own frustration with the Causal vs. Non-dual problem which he seems to resonate with:

Fuck

Nirvana!

How

is this

going to

get me laid?

They fit together perfectly. Come back to the territory and do it beautifully, or you have nothing to teach me! That's it.

I feel so free right now! Free to be both humbled and amused by my Karma. I'm so messed up. And while, I'm genuinely sorry for all the real suffering that causes people (not pretend suffering) and I will continue to do everything in my power to get out of your way, I'm having a moment of perfect peace with what I am right now.

The manifest realm is so incredibly creative and in love...   it can't help itself. It has to bend and twist and stretch too thin to reach the beloved. It must avoid and detour and skip and deny. It just can't help itself. It's so strange being a part of something so important and so "ordinary". I'm so used to being the whole. And my particular whole is so not impressive compared to the part I get to play.

Beautiful. Friendly. Amazing. Forgiving. Funny.