A Zen diary

like a cloud ☁️ move along

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"Let the pain be a teacher. Not a prison."

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A problem arises? Go slow... 🐌

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Guided meditation

Breathe in: Peace

Breathe out: I have faith in myself in the here and now.

In: Peace

Out: Faith.

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PEACE IS KNOWING:

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..... Nothing true is permanent .....

.. ev,rything dissolves ..

. No grasping will make it stay.

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Maybe the destination

Is right here. Now. Just

Be. Don't try. It is pure love.

[terrorignitis]

Others may forget you, but not I. / I am haunted / by your beautiful ghost.

Empress Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王)

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Your heart is tough like a rock once the ego dies. Any tentacle that reaches out is your attachments. The space around you is Patience. Peace. Silence. Presence.

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Horseweed quivers in the wind

Hiding my Gingko

Tree just planted over there.

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Mount Fuji is perfect being.

- I posit.

Water is emotions.

Cloud is thoughts.

Mountain is soul.

(Sometimes tide is high

Sometimes choppy)

(Let clouds pass by

No judgement)

The scene is strong.

Still emotions, water still

- the birds fly by to say hello.

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Best film of the year. And Dustin Hoffman is in it too...

[retiredtsgt]

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Destroy, invade, occupy.

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Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn:

It’s funny how much our surroundings influence our emotions. Our joys and sorrows, likes and dislikes are colored by our environment so much that often we just let our surroundings dictate our course.

We go along with “public” feelings until we no longer even know our own true aspirations. We become a stranger to ourselves, molded entirely by society…

Sometimes I feel caught between two opposing selves — the “false self” imposed by society and what I would call my “true self.”

How often we confuse the two and assume society’s mold to be our true self. Battles between our two selves rarely result in a peaceful reconciliation.

Our mind becomes a battlefield on which the Five Aggregates — the form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness of our being — are strewn about like debris in a hurricane.

Trees topple, branches snap, houses crash.

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The breath is the way through

The breath is the way through

The breath is the way through

The breath is the way through

The breath is the way through

The breath is the way through

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A tragic romance. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Original journey to the oldest conclusions.

[ss-writess]

“Being loved is pleasant. Being understood is extraordinary.”