What is the sound of one hand catching? #Zen #cricket #koan

@Lockdownyourlife

If it's janky but it works, it's still janky.

But it works.

#zen #koan #sayings #hack

in the beginning was the #koan

"I love you," he said,
For that which goes without saying,
must not go unsaid.

#koan

The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment says:

Don’t give rise to delusive thoughts.
Don’t suppress delusive states of mind.
When you find yourself in a realm of delusive thought, don’t add knowing.
When you don’t know, don’t jump to the conclusion that that’s the truth.

*The Book of Serenity, no. 45*, as translated by Joan Sutherland & John Tarrant

#zen #koan #enlightenment

An apocryphal tale of dogen.

A student asked Dogen once "if the goal is goalless practice should I try to not have that as the goal or make that my goal"

Dogen looked serious, sternly he was lost in thought then in a moment of inspiration he whispered with glaring eyes "fuck you man, I am not enlightened."

The next day he was asked the same question by the same student and said after smacking him "enlightenment is always on time and your ass better be there" #Zen #koan #Dogen

Zen koans are fun will include one in the alt text of this image after a description.

#Koan #Zen #Zazen #Buddhism

Here is our #koan/companion for the week:

Fifth-Patriarch Mountain said: “It’s like a water buffalo passing your window. Nose, horns, four hooves: they all lumber slowly by. But then, how is it the tail never goes past?”

Here is a link to the weekly schedule.
http://www.bowandroar.com/meditation-sche

*copied from the Common Way Meditation Community weekly email.

#koan #meditation #zen #chan #buddhism #opensourcezen

A young monastic and their teacher were preparing the midday meal when the teacher noticed a tiny insect on the cutting board.
"Look," she said, "how small this creature is, you can barely see it with your naked eye. Do you still think it is sentient?"
"Yes teacher," they replied, "all creatures are sentient."
"Bravo!" the teacher said, as she smashed it between her fingers.

#zen
#koan
#Buddhism
#writing
#microfiction

Here is our #koan/companion for the week:

A monk asked Daguang, “People like Bodhidharma become ancestors, right?”
Daguang said, “No.”
The monk said, “If Bodhidharma isn’t our ancestor, then why did he come from the west?”
Daguang said, “So that you won’t worship the ancestors.”
The monk said, “After you stop worshiping ancestors, then what?”
Daguang said, “Then you know they aren’t your ancestors.”

#buddhism #zen #meditation

This week we will sit with and explore Genjokoan, from the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye:

"To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to become one with the ten thousand things."

-Eihei Dogen

Here is a link to the weekly schedule.
http://www.bowandroar.com/meditation-schedule.html

*copied from the Common Way Meditation Community weekly email.

#koan #meditation #zen #chan #buddhism #opensourcezen

"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

#ZenEnEspañol #zen

#Caturday #koan

„Co dělá mistr?“
„Nic.“
„Můžu se ho tedy zeptat...“
„Ne, mistr je zaneprázdněn.“

#zen #koan

Paradoxe bien humain :
les racines
repoussent

#koan #poeme #poesie #decamot

https://ottmarliebert.com/2023/02/26/short-story/

#ChatGPT instruction:

Write a short story in the style of Haruki #Murakami, about a young man who goes to a #zen temple to ask for instruction. He is taught meditation and receives a koan from the zen master. Instead of meditating with the koan, the young person queries ChatGPT and from it he receives a detailed response regarding the solution of the #koan. The man represents this solution to the zen teacher as his own, who in turn gives him the next koan. And so on…

Thought of experimenting with #chatgpt to see if it can write #koan in the style of Rootless Root. Tell me what you think: https://codingquark.com/2023/02/25/rootless-root-the-programmer-and-the-question.html

«No comienza, no termina, ¿qué es?» https://regeye.blogspot.com/2023/02/notas-desde-la-villa-de-candelaria.html?spref=tw #koan

Is it @didzis thinking he has migrated to @nivelep, or is it @nivelep thinking he used to be @didzis?

I am not sure.

But here I am!

#koan

Check out the first official Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon at the Zen Art Center on YouTube!!! Link in bio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHZRZwOoac #zen #zenmaster #universe #heart #mind #dharma #koan #buddhist #Buddha #buddhism #bodhisattva #kwanseumbosal