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A good way to meet people is to mind their business.

If you trust yourself, others will trust you.

I was busy asking, "what makes me such a bad listener?" while my girlfriend was telling me her problems

I judge that you are judgmental, though so am I. So we're cool.

People who tell you to stop explaining yourself don't realize that if you actually do that, you'll be met with continual misunderstading and rejection.

 I know because that's me. 

No one can dub me useless except myself. And, sometimes, I am.

 Not always though.

Thinking is thinking, therefore I think therefore I think.

 Cogitare est cogitare ergo cogito ergo cogito.

I'm a professor who lives with my parents.

 How smart am I?

Buddhists have from the very start realized the state of No-Mind, because they're all fucking idiots.

 They live in the dark ages. 

I was charged with being on trial. I fled.

It used to be that I only felt anger and disgust towards others, but now I only feel pity.

 That's the best I can do.

Complaining about women having too much power makes you less of a man, but so does sticking up for women's rights.

 Therefore I'm less of a man than before this post.

I don't have anything to hide, but I'd like the option to hide something if I wanted.

It's always the quiet ones you gotta watch, because after they're watched they get really upset, and that's funny.

I'm neurodivergent. My disability is that I'm a madman.

I realized I wasn't enlightened. I still think I am though.

 That was just for yesterday I realized that.

I was frustrated with my restless body, and I was frustrated with lack of money, and I was frustrated with assholes. I still am, but at least I know it's the way of the world.

 I still am, but I'm not frustrated that I am.

When I tried to get rid of my pride, the problem was that I wasn't proud of it.

We don't need another Jesus. He already finished his work. We are all in Heaven.

 You don't need to take any lessons from him either. He made the sacrifice so you don't have to worry about it. He said turn the other cheek, he did that, and got crucified at 33. Now we can go back to not turning the other cheek, and we're better off for it. He rebalanced us. 

How you breathe makes absolutely no difference. Breathe however the fuck you want. It's the only thing there's never been a law against. Don't let anyone tell you you're doing it wrong.

 Same goes for your posture. 

Shame is nothing but extreme embarrassment.

A true Buddhist master is an asexual, anorexic, teetotaling, loiterer.

They say "midlife crisis," but is it really a crisis to spend some money on a nice car and go on a date with a 24 year old?

I can find humor in my sorrow. So I'm always laughing.

There are givers and takers. It's OK to be a taker, as long as you have gratitude. It's not automatically good to give, if it's followed with, "look what I do for you!"

It's a little funny when someone says, "I'm not perfect." It's like, "We already know that, dude."

I'm not interested in beauty.

I try not to notice the beautiful.

Enlightenment is illegal. Doing anything that's purposeless or not driven by productivity in society is considered vagrancy or loitering. Being a wandering mendicant is a crime. There is no dharma anymore.

 The United States is a barbaric country where wisdom is impossible. I am not wise, I'm just a madman, but the only thing that's sane about me is I know I'm a madman. The dharma is about going against the status quo, but anything that's not part of the status quo is a crime. Homeless itinerancy is a crime, and meditation halls are driven by nothing but money and sex. Existing and taking up space is not allowed in the world today unless you are a slave or you are willing to be evil. I'm speaking nothing but truth right now, but I am breaking the law just by being truthful and good. The Buddha said to never lie, cheat, or steal, but it is considered all 3 transgressions just to take respite at night anywhere other than jail or a den of iniquity, both of which imply you've already failed.  Truth is dead, but it was not Trump who killed it. It was all of us. 

You said I am my worst mistake, which was definitely a bad mistake. But we're not defined by that.

I won't say shame on you for shaming me, but you should definitely be embarrassed at least.

Unironically telling someone they have nothing to contribute to the conversation does not contribute much to the conversation.

Maturity is perpetual frustration, because you're forced to consider everyone's ideas.

I have a God-shaped hole in my heart, except God still doesn't fit in it because he's the size of the entire universe. Like if God is shaped like an enormous trapezoid, my heart would be a much smaller trapezoid.

 I guess it's made in God's image though. 

I feel that my identity is betwixt and between formal and postformal thought, which is exactly how postformal thought works.

 Feelings are wrong sometimes. 

The way to not suffer any more than you do now is to suffer the maximum amount, all the time.

I'm a man of constant sorrow, so I don't mind if you hurt me.

 I'm just settling in here at rock bottom.

I try to love others as I love myself, which is quite little.

I'm selfless and compassionate, because I hate myself and don't want to give myself any undue attention.

Don't take yourself too seriously nor not too seriously. Just ignore yourself as if you were someone you despised, because let's face it, you are.

I'm not sure which one is a bigger insult: "You've changed!" Or, "You'll never change!"

 Then again, I'm not sure which is a nicer compliment: "Don't ever change," or "You've come a long way."

In spirituality, apparently, being in-the-moment means agreeing with whatever the academic worldview is at the time. Which almost always means, not thinking for yourself.

 Then again, thinking in general also isn't popular among spiritual people. (I'm spiritual too, so... mea culpa)

Zen masters who believe in trying without trying and the pathless path have Dysrationalia, the psychological disturbance where you can't think rationally.

People with Dysrationalia also do literary criticism very persuasively. 

I'm an autistic Buddhist. I would be an enlightened autistic person, but enlightened people don't think they're enlightened. And because autistic people are rational, the only solution is that I'm not enlightened, and there's no such thing as enlightenment.

 And that's also the only correct way to look at it. 

We need to stop complaining as adjuncts. We have a pulpit where we spout our dumb ideas to thousands of students over our lifetimes and they are forced to listen to us or else we fail them.

 I'm a professor so I can say that... although I know I'm not the most charismatic.