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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

"To understand, stop trying. The answer is not in thought."

– Bankei

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

"When the mind is still, the world surrenders."

– Rinzai

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Rinzai

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026

"Why did Bodhidharma come from the West? The cypress tree in the courtyard."

– Zhaozhou

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Zhaozhou

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · May 02, 2026

"One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things. He moves in harmony with the present moment always knowing the truth of just what to do."

– Lao Tzu

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Tzu #LaoTzu

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

"We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun."

– Taisen Deshimaru

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026

"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded."

– Gautama Buddha

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2026

"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."

– Bodhidharma

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026

"If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us? "

– Gautama Buddha

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Apr 06, 2026

"A cup of tea, a falling leaf—what more teaching do you need?"

– Ryōkan

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2026

"So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

"The true purpose (of Zen) is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes."

– Shunryu Suzuki

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Suzuki #ShunryuSuzuki

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 26, 2026

"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be."

– Taisen Deshimaru

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 25, 2026

"The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the world to live in us."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 08, 2026

"In spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 07, 2026

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

– Bodhidharma

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

"Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

"Learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

"You wash the bowl, and the universe is cleansed."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."

– Confucius

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

"To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form"

– Huangbo Xiyun

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

"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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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

– A Zen proverb

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

"The whole world is a single flower; each and every phenomenon is a blossom from that flower."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."

– David Sylvian

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Sylvian #DavidSylvian

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

"When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised."

– Rajneesh

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Rajneesh

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

"If you meet the #Buddha on the road, kill him."

– Linji Yixuan

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Yixuan #LinjiYixuan

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."

– Thich Thien-An

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Thien-An #ThichThien-An

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."

– Bodhidharma

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2026

"Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial."

– Bodhidharma

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

"Suppose a warrior, forgetting that he was already wearing his pearl on his forehead, were to seek for it elsewhere, he could travel the whole world without finding it."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 19, 2026

"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself."

– Gautama Buddha

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

– Gautama Buddha

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

"Everything in the universe is connected. Everything is osmosis. You cannot separate any part from the whole interdependence rules the cosmic order."

– Taisen Deshimaru

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Feb 01, 2026

"Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am.' I say, 'I do not think, that is why I exist.'"

– Taisen Deshimaru

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Jan 21, 2026

"Every man possesses the #Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves."

– Dōgen

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Dec 28, 2025

"If you would spend all your time—walking, standing, sitting or lying down—learning to halt the concept-forming activities of your own mind, you could be sure of ultimately attaining the goal."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday@mastodon.social · Dec 24, 2025

"When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self."

– Dōgen