You heard about a certain dude who professed a profound understanding of Zen Buddhism. You sought him out. You had several conversations with him. In the third and last conversation with him, you realized that he was a vain fraud. You didn't publicize your finding because you were kind and besides your discovery of the fraudulence of this self-professed Zen master only confirmed your suspicion that truly enlightened men would prefer silence and not publicity. If one feels a need to talk publicly about anything, as you yourself often do, that often means one does not really know much about the subject. Anyway, you thought only you knew the dark secret about this man until you ran into a woman who also happened to know about this Zen "master". She confirmed to you that the man was a hypocrite. You were floored by her astuteness. You thought she would not know that truth about him because publicly she had professed a respect for the man.
You are vain, pompous, arrogant, loud-mouthed, prickly, vengeful, hypersensitive, neurotic, eternally angry, indomitably restless, and violence-prone. You know all of these about yourself. You are not proud of who you are, but you never pretend to be somebody who you are not. At least you have a basic honesty about who you are. You never think you are better than you really are. And that sets you apart from many assholes and douche bags you know.
Roberto Wissai
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