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Spirituality is not about finding God || Acharya Prashant, on Zen (2016)
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Oneness
Equanimity
Surrender
Discrimination
Spirituality
Gratitude
Suffering
God
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Acharya Prashant explains that the world is like a butcher's shop where God is the butcher, the shopkeeper, and the customer. Using the story of the monk Banzan, he illustrates that every piece of meat in this shop is the best, meaning that every experience, person, and moment in existence is divine and perfect. He argues that human suffering arises from personal discrimination and the tendency to choose or judge one thing as better than another. When we apply our own criteria and benchmarks to life, we create distinctions and lose the sense of oneness that leads to enlightenment.