wicket wolf · @wicketwolf
11 followers · 209 posts · Server mast.mastodonsports.social

What is the sound of one hand catching?

#zen #cricket #koan

Last updated 1 year ago

C. · @cazabon
148 followers · 3135 posts · Server mindly.social

@Lockdownyourlife

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

But it works.

#zen #koan #sayings #hack

Last updated 1 year ago

Eric Jennings · @patamystic
5 followers · 824 posts · Server sfba.social

in the beginning was the

#koan

Last updated 1 year ago

Crunchysteve · @crunchysteve
84 followers · 1318 posts · Server aus.social

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

#koan

Last updated 1 year ago

Gladwell Rainguard · @askesemann
61 followers · 231 posts · Server octodon.social

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

Last updated 1 year ago

Drew · @dharmadischarge
397 followers · 2802 posts · Server disabled.social

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

Last updated 1 year ago

Drew · @dharmadischarge
397 followers · 2801 posts · Server disabled.social

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

#koan #zen #zazen #buddhism

Last updated 1 year ago

Tim Sparks · @timsparks
32 followers · 39 posts · Server me.dm

Here is our /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.
bowandroar.com/meditation-sche

*copied from the Common Way Meditation Community weekly email.

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

Last updated 1 year ago

n)body · @n0body
83 followers · 561 posts · Server hachyderm.io

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

Last updated 1 year ago

Tim Sparks · @timsparks
29 followers · 30 posts · Server me.dm

Here is our /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.”

#koan #buddhism #zen #meditation

Last updated 1 year ago

Tim Sparks · @timsparks
26 followers · 22 posts · Server me.dm

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.
bowandroar.com/meditation-sche

*copied from the Common Way Meditation Community weekly email.

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

Last updated 1 year ago

René :zcash: · @pitmutt
98 followers · 1279 posts · Server zeal.center

"Si piensas que tienes la respuesta a un , pregúntate: me ha cambiado la vida ésta respuesta? Si no, la respuesta es incorrecta"
- Bret Davis

#koan #zenenespanol #zen

Last updated 1 year ago

🎴Kabuki, ronin · @Kabukironin
20 followers · 159 posts · Server donphan.social

#caturday #koan

Last updated 1 year ago

Hafušák 🇨🇿 · @akcepton
15 followers · 110 posts · Server mastodon.1984.cz

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

#zen #koan

Last updated 1 year ago

Amans · @amans
23 followers · 200 posts · Server piaille.fr

Paradoxe bien humain :
les racines
repoussent

#koan #poeme #poesie #decamot

Last updated 1 year ago

ottmar · @ottmarliebert
73 followers · 437 posts · Server mastodon.social

ottmarliebert.com/2023/02/26/s

instruction:

Write a short story in the style of Haruki , about a young man who goes to a 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 . The man represents this solution to the zen teacher as his own, who in turn gives him the next koan. And so on…

#chatgpt #murakami #zen #koan

Last updated 1 year ago

Dhavan · @codingquark
164 followers · 3449 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Thought of experimenting with to see if it can write in the style of Rootless Root. Tell me what you think: codingquark.com/2023/02/25/roo

#koan #chatgpt

Last updated 1 year ago

JLRegojo · @jlregojo
6 followers · 93 posts · Server masto.es
нивелеП · @nivelep
46 followers · 1 posts · Server creativewriting.social

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

Last updated 1 year ago

Check out the first official Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon at the Zen Art Center on YouTube!!! Link in bio:
youtube.com/watch?v=EdHZRZwOoa

#zen #zenmaster #universe #heart #mind #dharma #koan #buddhist #buddha #buddhism #bodhisattva #kwanseumbosal

Last updated 2 years ago