#zen
This pair of bracelets says almost all there is to say about me, most of the time. And yes, they read in opposite directions. I need to read the thin silver one. The beads are for other folks.
#Zen #Buddhism #NoMudNoLotus
TODAY'S EPISODE
Trumped Up Charges: Full Metal Ox Day 750 https://www.bitchute.com/video/5SKaijBkoN2z/
Watch the game unfold.
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TODAY'S EPISODE
Trumped Up Charges: Full Metal Ox Day 750 https://www.bitchute.com/video/5SKaijBkoN2z/
Watch the game unfold.
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#daily #laboroflove #intp #zen #mind #Vagabond
Our channel continues to progress #Gratitude
Was also ist ein wahrer Mensch?
Der Wahre Mensch des Altertums hatte nichts dagegen, zur Minderheit zu gehören; er strebte nicht nach heroischen Errungenschaften und zerbrach sich nicht den Kopf über Geschäfte. Darum hatte er nichts zu bereuen, wenn er einen Fehler machte, und bildete sich nichts darauf ein, wenn ihm etwas gelang. So konnte er die höchsten Höhen erklimmen, ohne zu zagen, ins Wasser gehen, ohne nass zu werden, und durchs Feuer gehen, ohne sich zu verbrennen. Nur wessen Wissen sich zur Höhe des Weges aufschwingen kann, der kann so sein.
Der Wahre Mensch des Altertums träumte nicht während des Schlafes und machte sich im Wachen keine Sorgen. Seine Speisen waren nicht aufwendig gewürzt, und sein Atem ging tief. Der wahre Mensch atmete von den Fersen aufwärts, während der gewöhnliche Mensch nur mit dem Brustkorb atmet. Jenen Menschen, die nicht nachgeben wollen, bleiben die Worte im Halse stecken, so als müssten sie sich erbrechen. Wer tiefsitzende Begierden hat, dessen natürliche Reserven sind gewöhnlich seicht.
Der wahre Mensch des Altertums kannte weder die Liebe zum Leben noch die Angst vor dem Tod; er freute sich nicht hervorzutreten, noch widersetzte er sich der Rückkehr. Beiläufig ging er dahin, beiläufig kam er wieder. Er vergaß nicht, was sein Ursprung war, und suchte nicht zu wissen, was sein Ende sein würde. Fröhlich nahm er an, und seiner selbst vergessend, kehrte er zurück. Das ist gemeint mit "den Weg nicht mittels des Verstandes schmälern, dem Himmel nicht mittels des Menschlichen aushelfen." Das ist es, was wir den Wahren Menschen nennen.
Darum hielt sein Geist nicht fest, sein Antlitz war unbewegt, und seine Stirn war von strahlender Offenheit. Herb wie der Herbst, mild wie der Frühling, harmonierten seine Freuden und sein Ärger mit den Jahreszeiten. Er wusste allen Dingen zu entsprechen, aber niemand kannte seine Grenzen...
Zhuangzi
Check out my latest Dharma Talk on YouTube!!! Discussion on the circle of life and a great Q&A at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/live/sJTwY5JpeBc?feature=share
#zen #zenmaster #buddhism #kwanseumbosal #Buddha #bodhisattva #buddhist #dharma #heart #mind
#Zen #Buddhist koans help us understand #lifeexperiences like #science helps us understand the world
https://bigthink.com/13-8/zen-buddhist-koans/
The world rushes by.
The wise add nothing.
#poetry #taoism #zen #zenbuddhism #spirituality #micropoems #MicroPoetry
Welcome, Spring!
Harness the energy of the equinox to share your light to the world!
Wishing you a day full of love with positive new beginnings. 🌞💖💫🪷
#vernalequinox #spring #newbeginnings #loveandlight #zen #lupine #nature #photography #bluebonnet #mindfulness #awareness #mettamonday
"If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"- Dogen #zen
jaja, der weglose Weg zum torlosen Tor und so. Aber #Zazen ist noch einmal eine Ecke schwieriger, wenn Handwerker im Haus laut bohren. m( #Buddhismus #Zen
Birds have bills too, but they keep on singing....
#SilentSunday #Peaceful #Zen #Ocean #Nature #MyBackYard #Video #AltText
TODAY'S EPISODE
Sunday Melánge 62: Full Metal Ox Day 749 https://www.bitchute.com/video/DgrDOg7jgaz5/
They use us against us always.
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TODAY'S EPISODE
Sunday Melánge 62: Full Metal Ox Day 749 https://www.bitchute.com/video/DgrDOg7jgaz5/
They use us against us always.
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#daily #laboroflove #intp #zen #mind #Vagabond
Our channel continues to progress #Gratitude
Im strebsamen Lernen eignen wir uns jeden Tag etwas Neues an.
Im Streben nach dem Tao lassen wir jeden Tag etwas los.
Immer weniger wird getan, bis wir das Nicht-Tun erreicht haben.
Wenn nichts getan wird, bleibt nichts ungetan.
Die Welt wird regiert, indem wir den Dingen ihren Lauf lassen.
Sie kann nicht durch Einmischung regiert werden.
Laozi
My way of getting #Zen: Seeing people on #YouTube soldering stuff. StezStixFix https://www.youtube.com/@StezStixFix is currently scratching this itch for me
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there"- Robert M. Pirsig #zen
Ed's a sweetheart. And it's him that I was referring to here yesterday:
... a #Zen Buddhist teacher friend gave me the name, "Jukan Shinkō." The first name, "jukan," means "jewel insight" — because, he said, I'm smart ... and "kinda hard." 🙂
The second name, in that tradition, is one which we're understood to be growing into — in my case, shinkō, means "vast faith." 🙏
#Buddhist #meditation: 'Zazen is Buddha' interview with Jōkō Shibata by Arthur Braverman http://ow.ly/iD3Kg
Hi Michele, it can be difficult for many people to develop self-awareness when they don't even know what it is.
And those who think they know what self-awareness is usually have an incomplete picture, yet tend to tell others how important it is that they develop it.
IMHO, as a former Buddhist Monk, this is an area where Buddhism thinks it excels, but falls short of the mark.
What are your thoughts?
#meditation #mindfulness #subconscious #awareness #wisdom #peace#buddism #zen
TODAY'S EPISODE
Wild Week Wrap Up : Full Metal Ox Day 748 https://www.bitchute.com/video/7rXIA7ZZl8zT/
And it only gets crazier.
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TODAY'S EPISODE
Wild Week Wrap Up : Full Metal Ox Day 748 https://www.bitchute.com/video/7rXIA7ZZl8zT/
And it only gets crazier.
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Our channel continues to progress #Gratitude
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we have come too far
to shrink away in silence
We are goddesses!
#MastoPrompt - shrink
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P.S.
The image of "touching the earth" I feel can suggest a kind of trust and faith that's involved when we "get real" and let go of our mere ideas and personal opinions.
And I'm now reminded, a #Zen Buddhist teacher friend gave me the name, "Jukan Shinkō." The first name, "jukan," means "jewel insight" — because, he said, I'm smart ... and "kinda hard." 🙂
The second name, in that tradition, is one which we're understood to be growing into — in my case, shinkō, means "vast faith." 🙏
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth" - Alan Watts #zen
I think I may start another podcast where I script it a bit and talk about #Zen things by myself. I’m not a priest or anything but I do think about it a lot and I’m sometimes I think things that are possibly insightful or at least have good questions.
TODAY'S EPISODE
Break On Through : Full Metal Ox Day 747 https://www.bitchute.com/video/h1mnologW8vl/
This song got my through 2020.
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#daily #laboroflove #intp #zen #mind #Vagabond
Our channel continues to progress #Gratitude
TODAY'S EPISODE
Break On Through : Full Metal Ox Day 747 https://www.bitchute.com/video/h1mnologW8vl/
This song got my through 2020.
#Trending #wellness #noregrets #subscribe #fitness #weightloss
#daily #laboroflove #intp #zen #mind #Vagabond
Our channel continues to progress #Gratitude
"Dancing Dragon" T-Shirt now available from The Zen Art Center Etsy store!
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#digitalartwork #artoftheday #zenartist #art #zenmaster #zenart #zen #dragons #yinandyang #tshirt
As a result, I have spent MULTIPLE MINUTES during retreats silently considering the ability of the assembled practitioners to power the #monastery with our #farts and trying not to giggle as a result of these wanderings.
What a gift, my friend, to be reminded never to take ourselves or our practice too seriously.
Another thing from #Zen which has been very useful to me is the idea of non-dualistic thinking, or “not one, not two.”
An example of this is that I have an individual experience of being a person, but if I zoom out only a little I’m a part of the organism known as Earth, or galaxy, or universe.
I experience individuality, but at the same time everything is sort of everything.
I’ve been pretty into #Zen #Buddhism for several years now, going to temples, retreats, keeping a meditation practice.
The reasons this particular religion speaks to me is that I can quantify and understand what it tells me in a way that doesn’t conflict with what I know about science, while also providing answers that science alone wouldn’t nessecarily provide me.
There isn’t anything I’ve seen which where I have to take on faith and can’t understand in concrete terms without any magic.
"Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water" - D.T. Suzuki #zen
reclaiming my soul
plowing into color fields
I sow peace within...
#DailyHaikuPrompt - plow
#MastoPrompt - reclaim
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"Do not insist upon your own fixed ideas. If your mind is broad it can easily embrace the entire world" - Zen Master Daehaeng #zen
Wir lassen nie vom Suchen ab, und doch, am Ende allen unsren Suchens sind wir am Ausgangspunkt zurück und werden diesen Ort zum ersten Mal erfassen.
T.S. Eliot
@bodhidave My morning #zen reflection was similar. Sitting was the moment when I ceased to be unwittingly submitted to the stimulus-reaction chain and began to consciously realize that I am submitted to the stimulus-reaction chain.
"We must learn to speak with Love again" - Thich Nhat Hanh #zen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qySWZvL6BOQ&feature=share Kevin Hae Seong Sheridan uses the old story about the water carrier to reflect on what happens between our ears when we don't quite measure up to our own standards. "Oh, I'm not a strong meditator...but she's got a really strong practice." "How can I save all beings when I can't even help myself?" All expectations are resentments waiting to happen, and as such, impediments to our awakening to our true Buddha Nature.
#zen #dharma
In tonight's #meditation there was a reminder of how getting quiet and getting still isn't about going "blank" or getting "dark" or being "frozen."
It's for me more a matter of my sense of agency and ego gets quiet.
And then ... 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 is what does the meditation.
It's what #Zen calls a suchness practice
And it's a bit hard to put into effective words, but it's like 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ... 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟.
There is #Zen when you follow #Earth on #instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/earth
"Si piensas que tienes la respuesta a un #koan , pregúntate: me ha cambiado la vida ésta respuesta? Si no, la respuesta es incorrecta"
- Bret Davis
"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else" - Shunryu Suzuki #zen
#Buddhist read: It was at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty that #Zen first flourished in China — Peaceful #Awareness by D. T. #Suzuki http://ow.ly/caAs4
Artwork: Moktak © Marcelle Hanselaar
#Lehrermangel oder #Zen-Übung?
< "Sind das Narzissen?"
> "Ja. Wieso?"
< "In der Schule beobachten wir gerade wie Narzissen wachsen."
> "Als FIlm? Im Zeitraffer?"
< "Nee. In echt."
Something about AI stuff brings out the Buddhist in me.
One way to look at all this AI #LLM stuff is as an invitation to notice that the part of you that talks is not the whole you. It's not even all the thinking you do.
Put another way, any time you hear someone hyping the latest AI advance, you could take that as a bell calling you to mindfulness.
I'm a victim of many of the abusive things mentioned in this article and the abuse I endured is why I'm no longer engaged in formal zen practice. I've also had to put up with ableism , ostracism, & the teacher's slander which hurt me greatly.
I've been deeply heartbroken by it and still have not been able to talk to anyone about it. :(
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗔𝘀𝗸𝘀:
1. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣? Meditation is anything we purposely do to distract ourselves from our auto-pilot mental habits.
2. 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠? Meditation works by replacing our current mental habits with new ones through repetition.
#meditation #mindfulness #zen #subconscious #awareness #wisdom #peace #mastodon #buddhism #transcendental #insight
The #bride and her #husband.
Shot taken with #fujifilm X-T1 #HybridCamera and its 35mm f/1.4 #primelens.
#MastoPhoto #MastoPhotos #EventPhotography #Inauguration #France #GoldenHour #Wedding #Married #JustMarried #Pyrenees #Pyrenean #Pyrénées #Béarn #Crépuscule Twilight #Sunset #Dusk #Zen #Happy #Happy #Happyness #Love #Lovers #Mariage #InLove #Union #DDay #Amoureux #Amoureuse #Mariée #Bokeh #CoucherDeSoleil
I didn't even know that it's #thicktrunktuesday so I guess that makes my tree of life a fitting post for today. (Still experimenting with creating stained glass effects.)
Artwork is here -https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/tree-of-life-stained-glass-peggy-collins.html
#trees #art #artwork #artist #color #colorful #colorfulart #naturelover #zen #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #mastodonart #fedigiftshop #mastoart #fediart #BuyIntoArt #TheArtDistrict #artbooster #peggycollins #peggycollinsgallery
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention" - Thich Nhat Hanh #zen
Remembering my teacher Great Zen Master Chang Sik Kim January 8, 1944-March 12, 2021. Rest in Heaven Sa Bu Nim.
#zenmaster #zen #zenart #zenartist #zenpoetry #poetry #art #zenpoem #universe #stars #midjourney #zenpoet #poems #buddhism #bodhisattva #buddhist #heart #dharma #mind #cosmos #cosmic #cosmicenergy
It's still #silentsunday and I just love listening to the gentle waves wash ashore #soothing #relaxing #zen #meditate
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When you see this, you never think of the mosquitoes, do you?
Jurassic size, they look like birds buzzing by the camera lens.
I'd get up at 4am for days like this.. every day in the summer
"To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves" - Dogen #zen
When you're agitated and don't feel you can meditate try to remember to take some slow deep cleansing breaths now and then. If you need to try taking your mind off what’s bothering you do something else that you find relaxing. If you’re overtired, make sure to set aside some time to catch up on your sleep if at all possible.
#meditation #mindfulness #subconscious #awareness #wisdom #peace #mastodon #zen #theravada #mahayana
"The truth of Zen is what turns one's hum drum life... into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity" - D. T. Suzuki #zen
Twenty-first piece in 31 days of poetry and ink. A depiction of my brain (mind, heart...) in the midst of Buddhist practice.
More thoughts and reflection behind "Caring, Not-caring": https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/1882026
"31 days of poetry and ink" full series: https://www.humangray.com/31-days-of-poetry-and-ink/
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #poetry #illustration #ink #TraditionalArt #Buddhism #zen
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All are from the same place, called Kukup beach on Java island in Indonesia.
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#photo #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #beach #photography #nature #naturephotography #Indonesia #beach #sea #landscape #relax #zen #SpringForArt #SpringIntoArt #Kukup #WonderfulIndonesia
"Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea" - Shunryu Suzuki #zen
Mastering the Art of Letting Go
#Buddhism #Zen #Peace #Mindfullness
https://zenhabits.net/mastering-letting-go/
"It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not" - Thich Nhat Hanh #zen
Just got out of the massage ... doing it again next month! I feel like I'm made of rubber! Can't wait to get home! #zen
aloha from Hamburg,
this artist' worx is #digital #dada #collage #photo #composite #art
it's about #perception and #meaning, includes #philosopy and #psychology and #esotericism plus #poetic and #absurd or #zen aspects ...
i started the public part of my artistic journey on IG [ @esotopia ] but am occasionally tired of fighting the almighty "Gods of Algorithm"
looking forward to mutual benefit ...
Moin, Moin,
TJK
#intro #newhere #neuhier #its_app_art #DigitalCollageArt #fluxus #surreal
New logo for The Zen Art Center by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon
#digitalartwork #digitalartist #digitalart #mind #buddhist #Buddha #buddhism #zenartist #art #zenmaster #zenart #zen
"The obstacle is the path" - Zen Proverb #zen
I came across a recording last night of a podcast I did a few years ago on 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 (~1 hour), titled "Zen and the Art of #Unknowing with Dave Collins."
I mention #Zen materials in it a few times, but it's mostly about the Cloud.
(The podcast was part of the series, "Poststructuralist Tent Revival." I'm seeing the other episodes of that series are available on Soundcloud.)
"The pure is made from the impure" - Thich Nhat Hanh #zen
"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else" - Shunryu Suzuki #zen
Reality is for people who can't handle Star Trek.
#Video #Collection #Morning #Dawn #Ocean #Twilight #Clouds #Thread #GIF #Hope #Sunrise #Rural #Halifax 🇨🇦 #SilentSunday #Zen
#AltText = All the same location and image, colours may vary. Taken in Harbour, with light in the east over the dark horizon, ocean below
Adrift
for #SilentSunday
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind in the Venetian lagoon.
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth" - Alan Watts #zen
"Our way to practice is one step at a time, on breath at a time" - Shunryu Suzuki #zen
"Life is like photography.
You need the negatives to develop."
#Sunrise #Dawn #Landscape #Morning #Birds #Peaceful #Zen #Ocean #MyBackYard #AltText
"One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world" - Dogen #zen
"You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day - unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour" - Zen proverb #zen
"Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water" - D.T. Suzuki #zen
"When you get there, there isn't any there there" - Zen Proverb #zen
"This -the immediate, everyday, & present experience- is IT, the entire & ultimate point for the existence of a universe" - Alan Watts #zen
Today in #myfavoritethings we have Stephen Mitchell’s luminous 1988 translation of the “Tao Te Ching,” available in its entirety online at the link below. Mitchell’s choices were profoundly informed by his long practice of #Zen under the Korean master Seung Sahn, and it shows in every word. Accessible, clear and modern, but never once cheaply so, his version renders all the power of the original without stumbling into Orientalist cliche. It is a stupendous achievement. https://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html
On this day in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, relocating 120,000 Japanese Americans to concentration camps. On this #DayofRemembrance, I honor Nyogen Senzaki, one of the first #Zen #Buddhist teachers in America, who led meditation sessions at Heart Mountain camp.
"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else" - Shunryu Suzuki #zen
"If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts" - Peter McWilliams #zen
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there"- Robert M. Pirsig #zen
"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else" - Shunryu Suzuki #zen
"To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves" - Dogen #zen