#zen #thyself #art # poetry
‘You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.’
**zen**
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‘After I’m gone, some of you will seclude yourselves in the forests and mountains to meditate, while others may drink rice wine and enjoy the company of women. Both kinds of Zen are fine, but if some become professional clerics, babbling about “Zen as the Way,” they are my enemies.’
***ikkyū***
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‘The vagaries of life,
Though painful
Teach us
Not to cling
To this floating world’
***ikkyū***
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‘On leaf and grass
Awaiting the morning sun
The dew melts quickly away.
Haste thee not, O autumn wind
Who dost now stir in the fields!’
***dōgen**
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‘The bamboo shadows are sweeping the stairs,
Buy no dust is stirred:
The moonlight penetrates deep in the bottom of the pool,
But no trace is left in the water.’
**unknown**
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‘a well nobody dug filled with no water
ripples and a shapeless weightless man drinks’
**ikkyū**
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#zen #art #thyself #poetry
‘How amazing, how amazing!
Hard to comprehend that nonsentient beings expound the Dharma.
It simply cannot be heard with the ear,
But when sound is heard with the eye, then it is understood.’
**tung-shan**
?cid=2154d3d74e57c5178f9fa086c4db62ae3eae5f901fa80c21&rid=giphy.gif&ct=gyes. learning happens much by imitation. ‘they’ probably aren’t aware that they are ‘they’. eventually later, if clever and the ‘ego-mind’ realizes what is ‘to one’s advantage’, they become aware that they are ‘they’ _ now ruthlessly, calling it simply ‘normal’.
‘Don't seek from others,
Or you'll be estranged from yourself.
I now go on alone -
Everywhere I encounter It.
It now is me, I now am not It.
One must understand in this way
To merge with being as is.’
** Ling-chia**
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‘In a moonlit night on a spring day,
The croak of a frog
Pierces through the whole cosmos and turns it into
a single family!’
** Chang Chiu-ch'en (張九成)**
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28 years of ‘internet’, or as one prefers ‘network of machines’. observing and participating with several waves of ‘enthusiasm’ and ‘idealism’; as they come up, as well they go. very similar to the cycles of fashion. the question of ‘who owns it’ remains. in these days it is ‘WHATWG’ _ rather unfortunately, but people like it, they like all things hierarchical.
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‘I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry but poems flare in my heart’
**ikkyū**
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‘When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.’
**d.h. lawrence**
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‘oh yes things exist like the echo when you yell
at the foot of a huge mountain’
**ikkyū**
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‘go down on your silly knees pray
for what? tomorrow is yesterday’
**ikkyū**