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View submission: Attaining the Unattainable: "Nothing to Attain" is NOT "Do Nothing Zen"
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Comment by Next-Fun-1673 at 25/01/2025 at 17:16 UTC
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I'm confused, he said doing good deeds without anyone being able to know it was you is a good thing and all these people are upset now. I mean, I suppose I can understand their deeply engrained need for other people to praise them, and how difficult it is to get over stuff like that, but I don't get how this is role playing. Maybe they're less needy and more concerned with it being such a difficult task that they would let the good deeds go undone rather than go to the trouble of anonymizing the deed, but then do we not vow to save all beings before saving ourselves? Is that not a difficult if not impossible task? Yet we vow to actually do it regardless, or at least I do. Probably many of you recite these words thinking, "Well since it's impossible I'm off the hook" but I don't believe Buddhism works that way. We keep our promises, even the impossible ones. Hell, *especially* the impossible ones.
Approaching Zen in a half-ass manner is dangerous. Truly dangerous.