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According to the Zen philosophy, we should learn how "to go with the flow" be passive, and never resist whatever life through in your face (i dont know how can this be reconciled with the law of Karma as explained above) to explain my point a bit further please read the following story:

Well, they said we should learn and do not resist because whatever happens is because there is a cause of such happening. However, they did not restrict us to do new good things to have new good karma in the future. This does ‘not’ mean that if our roof is broken and we do not need to fix it. Or if we are sick and we do not need to see a doctor or cure ourselves. Such interpretation is misunderstanding.

Zen is usually presented in a short statement and is difficult to understand, in particular for beginners. I do not suggest you to read them in short ‘without reading long explanations’.

The master said, "That is his problem, not mine." !!!!
So what all of this is about? being self-centred? is this the way to make the world a better place?

It would be a long answer for this as I said earlier that Zen is not easy. However, I would answer in short in ‘Zen style’ that ‘the master’ has no problem and he is happy. It was a problem for the disciple earlier but now it seems to be your problem.

Great!! so if the Buddha sees someone suffering why should he bother helping? to help others we should be motivated, we should have some sort of desire, isnt it.

You need to understand ‘Lokuttara Dhamma’ to clearly understand this answer. For Lokuttara Dhamma, after enlightening, the Buddha understands that there is no ‘self’, his body, mind and knowledge are actually not belonging to him but they are belonging to this world. So, what should he do about his body, mind and knowledge. So, he uses them for the benefits of other people in the world who are not enlightened.

For simple example, if we have a last meal before we die, and we have already eaten lots of foods until we are so full. But there are still much remaining foods which we do not need them anymore, and there are so many other people nearby who are still very hungry and suffering. What will we do about those remaining foods? Will we put them in bin, or we will give them to those other people who are still hungry and suffering?

If anyone will put them in a bin, please stop reading, you will never understand what we are talking. But if you will give them to the others who are hungry and suffering. This is the way that the Buddha and other ‘Arahanta’ have done. They have no desire but they do not waste their time, body, mind, strength and knowledge for nothing.

One of my favourite movies is "Samsara" its about the spiritual jounry of a buddhist monk. In the movie he recieved a letter his teacher asking him "what is more important: to satisy one thousand desires or conquering just one!" from my understanding (and please correct me if i am wrong, the only desire a buddist would have is LIBERATION from all desires!!! so if i liberate myslef from all desires (which sounds good to me) and i become free, why should i bother doing anything in life!! I would just sit there doing nothing (a complete dispassion, no attachement whatsoever) and wait for death to come and wish that i break out of the cycle of death and never come back to this miserable world.

Already answered in the previous question.

One last point is in relation to "living in the presnt moment" and in the "here and now" what buddhism say about planning? is planning for the future a bad thing according to buddism?

Planning is not prohibited in Buddhism. For example, to build a temple, the monks need to plan as well. You just misunderstand how to use this statement. Future is a consequence of present. We do good at present so that the future will be good.

Moreover, can a person live in the future? When the future comes, it is present. Can we go back to live in the past? If we can, that past is our present. A person may live in the past or the future only in his thinking.