"To be in harmony with the oneness of life is to be without anxiety about imperfection."
– Dōgen
18.11.2024 06:00"To be in harmony with the oneness of life is to be without anxiety about imperfection." – DōgenDaily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen"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. Those who don’t understand, don’t understand understanding. And those who understand, understand not understanding."
– Bodhidharma
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17.11.2024 06:00"If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your..."The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self-deception."
– Bodhidharma
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15.11.2024 06:00"The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self-deception."..."But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the #Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind."
– Bodhidharma
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14.11.2024 06:00"But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the #Buddha, they attain the..."The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field."
– Shunryu Suzuki
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13.11.2024 06:00"The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field." – Shunryu SuzukiDaily #Zen #Buddhism #Suzuki..."No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words."
– Dōgen
12.11.2024 06:00"No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words."..."But as long as you think you are practicing #Zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice."
– Shunryu Suzuki
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11.11.2024 06:00"But as long as you think you are practicing #Zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice." – Shunryu SuzukiDaily..."Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
– Gautama Buddha
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10.11.2024 06:00"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." – Gautama BuddhaDaily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha"Life is short and no one knows what the next moment will bring."
– Dōgen
9.11.2024 06:00"Life is short and no one knows what the next moment will bring." – DōgenDaily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the #Buddha. They keep searching outside."
– Bodhidharma
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8.11.2024 06:00"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the #Buddha. They keep searching outside." – BodhidharmaDaily #Zen..."Those who are extremely stupid think that women are merely the objects of sexual desire and treat women in this way. The #Buddha’s children should not be like this. If we discriminate against women because we see them merely as objects of sexual desire, do we also discriminate against all men for the same reason?"
– Dōgen
7.11.2024 06:00"Those who are extremely stupid think that women are merely the objects of sexual desire and treat women in this way. The #Buddha’s..."Every suffering is a #Buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to #buddhahood. You can’t say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain."
– Bodhidharma
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6.11.2024 06:00"Every suffering is a #Buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to..."If you are not happy here and now, you never will be."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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5.11.2024 06:00"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be." – Taisen DeshimaruDaily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru"To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve – as if you might die in the next instant."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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4.11.2024 06:00"To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve – as if you might die in the next..."The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."
– Gautama Buddha
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3.11.2024 06:00"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground." – Gautama BuddhaDaily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha"The past has not gone; the present is a fleeting moment; the future is not yet to come."
– Huangbo Xiyun
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2.11.2024 06:00"The past has not gone; the present is a fleeting moment; the future is not yet to come." – Huangbo XiyunDaily #Zen #Buddhism..."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
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1.11.2024 06:00"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..."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
31.10.2024 06:00"Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of..."Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind."
– A Zen proverb
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30.10.2024 06:00"Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind." – A Zen proverbDaily #Zen #Buddhism #proverb #Aproverb"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
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29.10.2024 06:00"Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider...