Your definition of imperfection is imperfect. And me, I'm defensive about how I want to open up.
Both of our styles really fuck with people who mess with us, and we messed with each other. We're alot alike.
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I'm grateful for my regrets. They make life interesting.
I don't mind regret, and I don't mind shame. What I do mind is minding. Discontentment. That I mind.
Judge not lest you judge yourself. Condemn not lest you condemn yourself.
Forgive and you will forgive yourself.
For the literal person, Buddhism should not be taken literally. For the crazy-wisdom person, rules should be followed.
If you vacillate between the two, then mix up your strategies occasionally. Just be cognizant of which one's in everyone's best interests.
I want to be told that I don't care if I'm told I'm a Zen master.
Unfortunately, I enjoy being called that very much. I'm quite corruptible.
Unsuccessful people think, "I love myself, so why can't I make it?" Successful people think, "I've made it, but is that the only reason I love myself?"
Then there's the group of people who hate themselves.
There's no such thing as sin or salvation. Knowing this does not grant you salvation.
However, it's also not a sin.
Every man has a day of reckoning. But every man gets another chance.
Not all Buddhists disapprove of Devadatta.
I may be the best person in the history of the universe. Probably not, but anything's possible.
I may even be the single best entity to have ever existed. There's like a 1 in an octillion chance, but that would be pretty cool.
You may be the best person on Earth. You also may be the worst. Or you're mediocre.
The important thing is to not be so sure.
When people say, "Nobody cares," it means nobody's judging you. When they say, "People still love you," it means nobody's judging you.
If they say, "Nobody loves you," they're being an asshole.
The way to be worry free is to not worry about being worry free
Unless, of course, you're still worrying.
Saying someone is always seeking perfection is a sign of seeking perfection
Few things are so absolute.
The psychotic drowns in the same waters the mystic drowns.
We all die eventually, our bodies or spirits.
The Undoer of Stories
The Undoer of Stories tried to reduce everyone to meaninglessness. He trained with an Asian master and was a professor of English, making him especially equipped to undo stories. He was on the brink of undoing several hundred people's lives, which would make them do the same to others and cause the death of society. As his student in the Asian arts, before I realized his nature, he undid 99% of my story. He waited 10 years, pointed out my gravest sin from back then, and said that it is all I was. I held on. I realized that all my mortal sins simply made me an antihero. The Undoer of Stories was the villain. Even if my life tallies up to make me a villain, stories prevailed, because I'm in the story. The Undoer of Stories is also in this very story, which makes him vanquished. It is written. Or is it? To be continued...
If God says I am evil, God is wrong.
The truth is that I am not. Although, I'll grant that I'm a heretic.
I'm relentlessly self-improving. Maybe I should fix that.
I'm a perfectionist, and that's a flaw, so I should stop so that I can be closer to perfect. I always want to change myself. I should change that about myself.
Calling people self-interested is self-interested, because no one's ever been selfless.
We have empathy, but we all feel it in our own being. The point is, better to be nice to people anyway.
Tomorrow, I won't care about the insights of today. That's an insight that I won't care about tomorrow.
However, they're cyclical. One day I may care again.
There's no such thing as post-modern. That would be the future.
Postmodernists would agree. This means they're full of shit.
Complete ownership and complete self-forgiveness contradict, but you can take very basic responsibility while having greater forgiveness
Justice and mercy also contradict, which is why at least minimal justice and greater mercy is OK. Not too much of either.