UNLIKE RELIGIONS, Zen doesn’t have a set system of beliefs for you to adopt. One thing that’s always impressed me about Buddhists is that they don’t give a damn about the fact that it’s widely known that many of the words attributed to Buddha were written hundreds of years after his death. “Who cares?” the devout Buddhists say. Because it doesn’t matter one way or the other. The only thing Buddhists believe in is the reality of the world in which we are all living right now. Buddhism is based on your real life as it is, not on whether or not you believe there’s an old guy with a beard above
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