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Pure physicalism as spiritual zen

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Everything being exactly what it is and nothing else. The chair. The dog. The cup of tea. The lamp. Nothing meaning anything more or less than what it is being just now. Myself? Just this physical body, living out its life moment by moment. Everything simply being just THIS. Thought an illusion. A constant surge to be elsewhere than just here in this moment. Pure meaningless absolute presence of what is now. Nothing more than this. Nothing else needed. All is here.

“The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. You're in it. You're already in it. What is the purpose of all this living if it's only to get some place else and then when you're there you're not happy anyway, you want to be some place else. It's always for 'when I retire,' 'when I graduate college,' 'when I make enough money,' 'when I get married,' 'when I get divorced,' 'when the kids move out.' It's like, wait a minute, this is it. This is your life. We only have moments. This moment's as good as any other. It's perfect.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners



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