Almost without exception no-one decides how to be. We are born into a "culture" and we are expected to play our part. There is nothing sacred about "culture". The sacred is both beyond and beneath culture. The sacred is the inexpressible truth of existence in its most infinitesimal reality.
No idea is adequate to fact of existence, and anyone pasting an idea on existence is either misguided or a charlatan or both.
Zen makes no excuses for existence.
Zen encourages the cultivation of intelligence without resorting to stereotypes.
Zen transcends even Buddhism its self.
If we could "decide" how to be, would we make of ourselves a Mahatma Gandhi or a Jessie James or something in between.
We will never know because are unable to transcend culture and are trapped within our limited minds.
Zen transcends culture.
Meditate
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