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in fact what you are referring to as Western religions are actually migrated European

religions gone bat shit and sometimes reinterpreted by inarticulate podunk languages of

rock-n-wooden steeple sheeple people.  If you date ........back to pre-Columbus-pre-Viking

migration & oppression, the  spiritual teachings of  “the West” were  very  closely related

to earliest “Eastern” Tibetan/Zen Buddhist & Taoist philosophies of Dogen soto & zazen

meditation which, converse to what maybe Mick or ‘iz  Buddhist bros may yower,  is very

likely conceptually connected with the mantras of the Himalayan region.   But this is just

my opinion. I don’t go to temple.  & I don’t make time for Sutra everyday.  ..I’m not Zen.

Not Tathagata.  Raised poor white Midwestern, I am befuddled & on the brink of war.

But I think my meditations have reached some point where I get it to a degree, mate.

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In the sweatlodge is a core philosophy liken to the shoshin notion. Pre-Jesus. Before the

pasty-white & emotionally abused nuns habitually abused red children & took away their

moccasins while beating their language out of them ritually.  Those children are the heirs

to an ancient balance & consideration, wiped-out for sake of industrialized ownership &

religious (ooops, irony) freedom. & it’s my meek contention that Jesus would have a shit-

fit in the wake of all this arrogant use of lives and livelihood.   He & his grandpa, Buddha,

would perhaps not be filled with light..beside th’pond on this day…with pebble in hand.

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  m&m