The Way of the Bear

[BearBear]

"Everything around you is perfect just as it is; just as you are and always have been." - The way of the Bear: Self Exploration to the Awakening

 

[BearBear]

"Reality is an effect of conditioning." The Way of the Bear - Truth and Consequences

*Otherwise everyone would experience Christmas the same.

 

[BearBear]

"It's not a matter of win or lose--if you're in it at all then go in all the way. So the only relevant question is: how much are you willing to lose?" - The Way of the Bear - The Book of Darkness

 

[BearBear]

"A Bear is a Bear through and through, neither suffix nor prefix matters--no qualifiers needed." - The way of the Bear: Chronicles of Bear life

 

[pmmg]

But… with bearbear, one is either a prefix or the other is a suffix…seems someone felt the need to qualify.

 

[BearBear]

But… with bearbear, one is either a prefix or the other is a suffix…seems someone felt the need to qualify.

From Bear to Bear there's no room for flare, nothing to add, and nothing to spare.

There's nothing to rectify with Bears completely unqualified; expectations should match effects.

 

[Aleshe]

From Bear to Bear there's no room for flare, nothing to add, and nothing to spare.

There's nothing to rectify with Bears completely unqualified; expectations should match effects.

 

[BearBear]

I'll take that as complimentary, as my reaction is arbitrary.

"Truth is situational, subjective and conditional; in other words arbitrary." The Way of the Bear - Truth and Consequences

 

[BearBear]

"I sleep well because I do well by me." - This is the way of the Bear

 

[BearBear]

"Needs satisfy the body. Wants satisfy the ego. True joy comes from the soul." - The Way of the Bear: Rules of Duality

 

[BearBear]

"Fear is irrelevant and pointless in their presence." The Way of the Bear: On the Eldrich Family

 

[BearBear]

"You can drive a Bear to the brink of extinction, but you can't kill his spirit or his nature, for that lives in all of us." - The way of the Bear: End Times

 

[BearBear]

"When hungry, eat; when thirsty, drink: when tired, rest; when bored, daydream." - This is the Way of the Bear

[Original Quote]

Bankei's Miracle: (copied from Reddit)

Huihai Dazhu Huihai (d.788) was asked by a Vinaya master, "When one seeks to follow the Way, is there a particular manner in which he should behave?"

"There is," Dazhu said.

"Please tell me about it," the Vinaya master requested.

"When one is hungry, one eats; when one is tired, one sleeps."

"But everyone does that," the Vinaya master complained. "Your behavior isn't different from that of commoners."

"They're not the same at all," Dazhu said.

"In what way are they different?"

"When most people eat, they don't just eat; their mind are preoccupied with a thousand different fantasies. When they sleep, they don't just sleep; their minds are filled with any number of idle thoughts."

 

[BearBear]

"In meditation, don't quiet your thoughts; understand them, trace them, heal them, make friends with them, and you will never be lonely." The Way of the Bear: The Shadows have Hearts.

 

[BearBear]

"Thoughts are a meandering stream. When there is rain they can be a raging torrent. When there is drought thet may dry up. I have experienced drought--I would never wish for drought." The Way of the Bear: Thoughts Under the Great Tree

 

[BearBear]

"They are always watching, always watching, always recording, but they don't judge." The Way of the Bear: On the Eldrich Family

 

[BearBear]

"The void itself is no great revelation or place of contemplation; it is meaningless and fruitless. In fact, it's no better than a deep dreamless sleep without anything remarkable at all--There is no experience. What you take away is one of the greatest revelations of awakening: in the void, even you do not exist." - The Way of the Bear: Friuitless Endeavors

 

[BearBear]

"A blank mind is white paper: perfect and unblemished, and equally underutilized for all its potential." - The Way of the Bear: Of Peace and Relaxation

 

[BearBear]

"True freedom is not hedonistic pleasure without restriction. True freedom is joy dispite lacking." - The Way of the Bear: On World Corruption

 

[BearBear]

"Life isn't fair, there is no equity nor is it even possible. Just as there is no equity, there is no justice in life. Only in death is there equity, only death has equal opportunity and equal outcome, only death is fair and just. Until someone cheats death, you can rely on fairness and justice at least once." - This is the way of the Bear.

"Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth."
- Svetlana Aleksievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster