This writing is interesting in that some people say Raymond was practicing Buddism because he was inquisitive and studied many things, many ideals and practiced patience and loyalty to all. Most who knew Ray remember when he attended a Baptist Church as a child and investigated the Morman religion while in USAF and stationed in Utah; then he joined the Catholic religion when he married a Catholic, not that he was actively a practicing Catholic.
Ray was inquisitive and investigated many approaches to the same result. Ray was a Christian most of all. God rest his soul, he served his time HELL.

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In Zen it is said that we are already awakened and that the real problem is our inability to realise this state. Every thought is like a buddha blooming at the tip of a flower bud.This means enlightenment is always there, waiting for us to join it; a consciousness beyond the human, a great mind indistinguishable from the universe itself. I like this idea and it reminds me of the feeling at the root of my animism – that we are not alone in the universe, that we are one kind of consciousness amongst many, maybe one ultimate one (although this is not important to me one way or the other – the important thing is the feeling that consciousness was already there before i joined it).

But that’s all pretty rosy. Another thing i think of when the idea of a greater awareness comes to mind is the all…

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