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- I recently received the following from a friend:
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- ABOUT DISCORDIAN ZEN
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- Many kinds of Zen exist. Each variety centers around a particular
- practice/ rite. Soto Zen centers on zazen. Rinzai Zen on koan
- introspection. Fuke Zen centers on playing a particular kind of
- music on the shakuhachi (a bamboo flute). Elemental Zen centers on
- tea ceremony. Discordian Zen centers on the Rite of Not Knowing as
- its basic manifestation [see below].
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- Performing the Rite of Not Knowing we enter into the realms of
- don't know mind. Letting go of our time and opinions, doing what
- appears, we become more flexible, less attached. Discordian Zen
- represents a new Zen manifes- tation. While the Rite of Not nowing
- represents Discordian Zen's primary practice (open to anyone),
- there exist additional practices/manifestations. These include:
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- 1- The Zen Precepts
- 2- A new manner of speaking
- 3- A new mainfestation of time
- 4- Reweaving the web of life
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- Discordian Zen has no temples, no location, no tax exempt status.
- It only seeks to manifest, transmit and expand the life-giving
- Chaos that consti- tutes our original nature, our original
- enlightenment. If you want to know more about Discordian Zen
- please write to:
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- Tundra Wind
- PO Box 429
- Monte Rio, CA 95462
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- THE BASIC PRACTICE OF DISCORDIAN ZEN
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- The Rite of Not Knowing
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- 1- Materials
- 3x5" file cards (lined or unlined)
- Pen
- Envelope
- Stamps
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- 2- On each file cars (as many as you choose to use) write simple
- action(s)/ activity(ies) (I prefer one activity/action to a
- card, but you can have more if you like). For example:
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- Walk around the block 3 times.
- Eat a hot dog bun.
- Do 50 jumping jacks.
- Listen to 5 different radio stations simultaneously for 5
- minutes.
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- 3- Mail the cards in to me, Tundra Wind, Box 429, Monte Rio,CA
- 95462.
-
- 4- I shuffle all the cards I receive together and then, through
- random means, decide how many cards to send back to you.
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- 5- I mail cards to you. You perform the actions/activities on the
- cards EXCEPT for those activities you wish to veto. This
- principle of the veto ensures that you don't have to do
- anything that violates your health and/or welfare.
-
- 6- After you finish, mail the cards back to me (add new ones if
- you wish) and I then put them back in the stack to re-include
- them in the next round.
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- The original constantly present and relentlessly emerging
- condition means nothing other than the life giving Chaos. Through
- this Rite one enters the original ungraspable, undefinable
- condition. The Chaotic vibrations of freedom and compassion
- flourish. Miraculously, one discovers that one loses nothing when
- one gives everything away.
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- Feel free to give the Rite of Not Knowing to any you feel will
- have an interest in it.
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