BookWyrm

Zen Every Day ◯

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

– Gautama Buddha

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Buddha #GautamaBuddha

Ian

Currently reading:

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5556248c-2328-4e39-b9a8-2d1816c91db0

#zen #books #reading

Zen Every Day ◯

"Complete the task at hand. Be selfless in your actions. This is the way of Heaven. This is the way to Heaven."

– Lao Tzu

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Ian

#ImInto

I am into:

#zen
#photography
#philosophyOfMind
#poetry
#books
#analogue
#climateChange
#deGrowth

Boost, then drop your own ImInto hashtag post. #Mastodon

Michael Ramsdell

Red-spotted Purple Admiral (Limenitis arthemis)
Butterfly 2025-23

Some live life turning up the volume...
While others can't help turning it down for everyone.

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #insect #love #zen #pics #photography #beauty #nature #photodaily #photos #thephotohour #mramsdellpics

Xanatos :godot:

Does anyone know why I can install another dictionary in Zen browser but cannot select it to check my writing?

#ZenBrowser #Zen #Browser #Dictonary #Spelling #ZenHelp

earthling

Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Shinshu Roberts, 2025

In this clarifying new commentary, esteemed Zen teacher Shinshu Roberts takes readers on a journey to understand Japan’s great Buddhist philosopher. Roberts applies her deep familiarity with Dōgen’s work to illuminate the text as a unified story in which Dōgen reveals the nondual nature of reality.

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#books
#nonfiction
#Buddhism
#Zen
#Dōgen

Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Shinshu Roberts

Frank Davies

Witness: Byung-Chul Han rips Hegel a new one because Hegel doesn't understand Buddhism.

https://goodreads.com/book/show/62238867.The_Philosophy_of_Zen_Buddhism

#philosophy #zen #buddhism #books #bookstodon

Zen Every Day ◯

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

– Bodhidharma

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

uncomfortably nick

And now your moment of #zen

Assoc for Scottish Literature

My grandfather didn’t know he was a Taoist.
He had fished the river Awe for sixty years.
Life is sensed as a flowing movement,
a power like wind or water. When he cast,
it was the bank that moved, not the river…

—Lorn Macintyre, “Satori”
published in The Bridport Prize Anthology 2013 (Redcliffe Press, 2013)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #naturepoetry #naturewriting #Zen

Satori
Lorn Macintyre

My grandfather didn’t know he was a Taoist.
He had fished the river Awe for sixty years.
Life is sensed as a flowing movement,
a power like wind or water. When he cast,
it was the bank that moved, not the river.
The osprey with the salmon in its talons
needed no metaphor to describe its beauty.
He saw the suchness of the landscape,
the great whole, perfect, sky, mountain,
as in a painting by the Zen K’un-t’an.
There is no Gaelic for the term satori,
the solution lying beyond the intellect,
that flash of delighted intuition, sensing
that a salmon is lying in the current,
while not seeing a ripple with the eye.
If I had told him: ‘you read the river
like a book, noting between the lines
what other fishermen fail to spy,’
he would have clouted me on the head,
the way Zen Masters took the big stick
to pupils who insisted on comparison.
The river needs no language, no homage.
It goes its own way, like the osprey
which will never run out of sky.

Frank Davies

I've recently been exploring Zen Buddhism and read 4 books on it in quick succession (also took a class). I like Thich Nhat Han especially. Hope this article might be a useful summary for someone else.

https://fd93.me/four-books-on-zen-buddhism

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Zen Every Day ◯

"When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring."

– Dōgen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

Zen Every Day ◯

"Firewood becomes ash, and it does not turn into firewood again."

– Dōgen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Our early walk at the #NCArboretum this morning was a bit sidetracked by a locked gate at the fence towards Lake Powhatan and Bent Creek. We circled back, and did a bit more of the regular trails, but much is still not open.

Here is a bit of #Zen if anyone needs it today.

#Water #movie