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Hi, I'm here to keep Mastodon a beautiful place. I post a #Zen quote every day at 7 AM CET. Enjoy! "The moon reflected on the water is the same moon that […] 🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.social/@zeneveryday on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

"A monk asked: 'When hundreds, thousands, or myriads of objects come all at once, what should be done?' The master replied: 'Don’t try to control them' What he means is that in whatever way objects come, do not try to change them. Whatever comes is the #Buddha-#Dharma, not objects at all. Do not […]

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, the technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, the mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point."

– Taisen Deshimaru

Daily #zen #buddhism #deshimaru #taisendeshimaru

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment."

– Dōgen

Daily #zen #buddhism #dogen

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

"Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything."

– John Grossmann

Daily #zen #buddhism #Grossmann #johngrossmann

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

"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

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

"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 […]

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"Not-knowing is most intimate."

– Zhaozhou

Daily #zen #buddhism #zhaozhou

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

"When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves."

– Dōgen

Daily #zen #buddhism #dogen

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

"The gate is wide open. Why do you walk past it looking for a key?"

– Linji

Daily #zen #buddhism #Linji

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

"The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something."

– Koun Yamada

Daily #zen #buddhism #yamada #kounyamada

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

– Gautama Buddha

Daily #zen #buddhism #buddha #gautamabuddha

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."

– Gautama Buddha

Daily #zen #buddhism #buddha #gautamabuddha

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

"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

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

"When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish."

– Huangbo Xiyun

Daily #zen #buddhism #xiyun #huangboxiyun

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

– Gautama Buddha

Daily #zen #buddhism #buddha #gautamabuddha

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

"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

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

"If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life."

– Wu-men

Daily #zen #buddhism #Wu-men

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

"The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization."

– Dōgen

Daily #zen #buddhism #dogen

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

"Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realization."

– Gene Clark

Daily #zen #buddhism #clark #GeneClark

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

"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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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #zen #buddhism #bodhidharma

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

"To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #zen #buddhism #bodhidharma

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

"If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake."

– Dōgen

Daily #zen #buddhism #dogen

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

"If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes into movement. It is like a fish hidden in a spring, drumming up waves and dancing independently."

– Linji Yixuan

Daily #zen #buddhism #yixuan #linjiyixuan

Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

"The true person is not anyone in particular; but like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world."

– Dōgen

Daily #zen #buddhism #dogen