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    %WAY ZEN ACCEPT CONTENT SERENE SALVATION ADDICT 901001

     In his book, "The Way of Zen", the author Allen Watts
seeks to point to the essential insight of Zen Buddhists.

     We  may point to some of the essential insight of Zen
Buddhists by observing that:

     Contentment  is not achieved through the use of,   or
the avoidance of the use of, any technique or resource.

     In the previous statement the word "contentment"  may
just  as  well be replaced by any of the following  words;
see if it is not so!

     peace      serenity   satisfaction  meaning

     salvation  rest       integrity     wholeness

     health     coherence  re-birth      redemption

     Similarly  with each of the following  statements  as
they  are,   and  with above words used  as  the  possible
replacements of the word "content" in appropriately recast
ways of pointing to the central truth of real living. Such
replacements can generate over 55 additional statements!

     We  are CONTENT when we finally decide to accept  who
and  what  we  are,   and to be  CONTENT,   without  first
achieving a fix by which we and/or others hope we will  be
made CONTENT.

     We are CONTENTed when we finally decide to accept the
gift  of CONTENTment as freely given and  freely  accepted
outside the bounds of each and every manipulative: system,
arrangement,  rule,  paradigm,  requirement,   technology,
addiction, collusion, etc.

     The  way  to  CONTENTment cannot  be  sold,   bought,
contained,  restrained,  repressed,  or hidden;  for it is
always free, open, active and public.

     Those who are truly CONTENTed cannot be controlled or
imprisoned  through  the threat of or actual  manipulation
through: violence, punishment, dishonesty,  fragmentation,
analysis, coercion, law, or rewards.

     Those  who are not CONTENTed are often embarrassed by
and  threatened  by  the visions of those  who  are  truly
CONTENTed,   for  the CONTENTed people's way of  thinking,
feeling and living threatens to expose the truth about the
dishonesty and manipulative technologies of those who have
not accepted the gift of CONTENTment on its own terms.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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