Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.

Ikkyu

Mots clés poetry zen koan

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Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

Susan Gordon Lydon

Mots clés life zen loss knitting

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I'm a practicing Zen Buddhist and I'm influenced by my readings in that tradition, such as the notion that everyone is born a perfect being and we spend most of our lives with a clouded vision trying to realize our perfection," he says. At critical moments in the book, T.S. registers his inkling of this realization. When he makes his maps, it feels like taking down dictation from the universe.

Reif Larsen

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Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

Steve Hagen

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As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

Steve Hagen

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This will never come again

Steve Hagen

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What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Steve Hagen

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Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

David Fontana

Mots clés zen unity oneness discover fontana

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If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Dōgen

Mots clés truth zen dharma dogen

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When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

Matsuo Bashō

Mots clés poetry zen haiku creating japanese composition zen-monks

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