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"The moon reflected on the water is the same moon that shines in the sky. The mind of #compassion is like water, and the mind of wisdom is like the moon."

– Zen Master Dōgen

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2024-11-02 06:00:00

"The past has not gone; the present is a fleeting moment; the future is not yet to come."
– Huangbo Xiyun
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Xiyun #HuangboXiyun

2024-11-02 06:00:00

"The past has not gone; the present is a fleeting moment; the future is not yet to come."
– Huangbo Xiyun
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Xiyun #HuangboXiyun

2024-11-01 06:00:13

"What is called #Zazen is sitting on a zafu in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-10-31 06:00:03

"Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-10-30 06:00:31

"Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind."
– A Zen proverb
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #proverb #Aproverb

2024-10-29 06:00:01

"Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems."
– Barry Graham
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Graham #BarryGraham

2024-10-27 05:00:01

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."
– A Zen proverb
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #proverb #Aproverb

2024-10-26 05:00:05

"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-10-24 05:00:06

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-10-23 05:00:02

"When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-10-22 05:00:03

"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean."
– Linji Yixuan
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Yixuan #LinjiYixuan

2024-10-22 05:00:03

"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean."
– Linji Yixuan
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Yixuan #LinjiYixuan

2024-10-18 05:00:07

"Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate."
– Huangbo Xiyun
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Xiyun #HuangboXiyun

2024-10-16 05:00:03

"This dew-like life will fade away; avoid involvement in superfluous things."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-10-15 05:00:03

"I am respected by others not because of my virtue but because of my clothing.' Foolish people respect others in this way."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-10-14 05:00:04

"Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people."
– Huangbo Xiyun
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Xiyun #HuangboXiyun

2024-10-13 05:00:02

"Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-10-12 05:00:00

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
– Brice Lee
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Lee #BriceLee

2024-10-11 05:00:00

"Sometimes I am a philosopher, sometimes a religious person, sometimes a monk, sometimes an educator, sometimes a whiskey-drinker."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-10-10 05:00:04

"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-10-06 05:00:01

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-10-05 05:00:03

"The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing – or heart, mind, and hands – or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage."
– Eric Maisel
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Maisel #EricMaisel

2024-10-04 05:00:03

"You should sit and meditate for 20 minutes, unless you’re too busy, then you should sit and meditate or an hour."
– A Zen proverb
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #proverb #Aproverb

2024-10-03 05:00:26

"The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-10-02 05:00:04

"When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
– Lao Tzu
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Tzu #LaoTzu

2024-10-01 05:00:00

"Discussion has nothing to do with Zen."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-09-30 05:00:01

"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-09-29 05:00:01

"To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist – if you say you are, you probably aren’t."
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Ferlinghetti #LawrenceFerlinghetti

2024-09-24 05:00:05

"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-09-18 05:00:06

"Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-09-17 05:00:03

"Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else."
– Osho
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Osho

2024-09-15 05:00:04

"To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-09-14 05:00:11

"Do not be too interested in Zen."
– Shunryu Suzuki
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Suzuki #ShunryuSuzuki

2024-09-13 05:00:13

"Roads were made for journeys not destinations."
– Confucius
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Confucius

2024-09-10 05:00:01

"Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love."
– Osho
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Osho

2024-09-09 05:00:02

"The #Zazen I speak of is not learning #meditation. It is simply the #Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-09-08 05:00:02

"To go from mortal to #Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-09-07 05:00:01

"One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-09-06 05:00:02

"The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-09-04 05:00:05

"To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-09-03 05:00:02

"One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter."
– Osho
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Osho

2024-09-02 05:00:06

"Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive – just be ordinary."
– Linji Yixuan
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Yixuan #LinjiYixuan

2024-09-01 05:00:02

"Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are."
– Taizan Maezumi
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Maezumi #TaizanMaezumi

2024-08-31 05:00:06

"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-08-30 05:00:03

"Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary."
– Bankei Yotaku
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Yotaku #BankeiYotaku

2024-08-28 05:00:00

"Most people do not like criticism. But they should. They should say thank you."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-08-26 05:00:01

"We practice because we do not yet know who or what we are. But as a result of many causes, including the suffering we experience and the longing engendered by that suffering, we aspire to know. That aspiration leads many people to begin the practice of #Zazen. Dogen expressed this beautifully when he said, 'Wisdom is seeking wisdom.' Perhaps we might paraphrase and say that wholeness is seeking wholeness, self is seeking self."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-08-25 05:00:00

"Sharpen a blade too much and its edge will soon be lost. Fill a house with gold and jade and no one can protect it. Puff yourself with honor and pride and no one can save you from a fall."
– Lao Tzu
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Tzu #LaoTzu

2024-08-18 05:00:05

"A #Buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-08-12 05:00:24

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-08-09 05:00:03

"Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm, Without looking for the traces I may have left; A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home; Hearing this, I tilt my head to see Who has told me to turn back. But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-08-05 05:00:03

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-08-02 05:00:00

"To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, 'To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.' When you seek nothing, you're on the Path."
– Bodhidharma
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

2024-07-30 05:00:03

"Don’t be satisfied with small things. Unless you have come to a point where you feel absolutely contented, don’t stop. That is the culmination of evolution, where each individual becomes a god."
– Osho
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Osho

2024-07-29 05:00:00

"Even if we hate the weed, and even if we abandon this hate of the weed, it will grow."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-07-28 05:00:05

"The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-07-27 05:00:06

"No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself."
– Osho
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Osho

2024-07-23 05:00:07

"Talking about Zen all the time is like looking for fish tracks in a dry riverbed."
– Wu-Tzu
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Wu-Tzu

2024-07-20 05:00:01

"Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-07-16 05:00:03

"The first and the best victory is to conquer self."
– Plato
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Plato

2024-07-12 05:00:00

"A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-06-30 05:00:01

"If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us? "
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-06-29 05:00:01

"Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-06-26 05:00:02

"To start from the self and try to understand all things is a delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-06-23 05:00:01

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
– Osho
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Osho

2024-06-14 05:00:01

"Everything in the universe in ten directions—soil, earth, grass, and trees; fences, walls, tiles, and pebbles—performs the #Buddha’s work."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-06-13 05:00:00

"Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people’s minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!"
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-06-12 05:00:02

"The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the world to live in us."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-06-08 05:00:03

"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-06-06 05:00:02

"#Zazen means to stop running after and to stop running away."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru

2024-05-31 05:00:00

"To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-05-28 05:00:04

"Grass, trees, fences, and walls become able to preach for all souls, both common people and saints; and conversely, all souls, both common people and saints, preach for grass, trees, fences, and walls."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-05-01 05:00:01

"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-04-19 05:00:07

"So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2024-04-08 05:00:00

"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn’t necessary."
– David Sylvian
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Sylvian #DavidSylvian

2024-03-27 06:00:03

"Be where you are; otherwise, you will miss your life."
– Gautama Buddha
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

2024-01-09 06:00:02

"Looking deeply into the writings and sutras of past teachers does not mean to learn something that is unrelated to us. Studying ancient writings means to study our lives. To study the Tenzo Kyōkun came to mean for me that I would be studying my own life."
– Dōgen
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

2023-12-24 06:00:00

"The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something."
– Koun Yamada
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Yamada #KounYamada