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Illusions deceive. Colors circumscribe. Even divisibles are indivisible. Shiva answers Devi, “What is your reality?” Vigyan Bhairav Tantra / Zen Flesh Zen Bones / Reps and Senzaki

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the true here and now is not a concept, belief, or pop slogan. it is the immediate, the real, and that is all. #Zen

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find the still point in all the confusion / chaos...

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A scale of some kind is necessary, and with various scales in our mind, we experience things. Still the thing itself has no scale. That is something we add to reality... Using a scale you can analyze one reality into entities, big and small,

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Living from "before thought" is living from our true self, the intelligence of the universe.

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When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question, but remain centered. Shiva answers Devi, “What is your reality?” Vigyan Bhairav Tantra / Zen Flesh Zen Bones / Reps and Senzaki

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No, I said to myself, there's nothing in this world that's perfect. If it has shape and form, it's got to have a weak point, a blind spot. Haruki Murakami, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls"

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wanting nothing ~ with all your heart ~ stop the stream when the world dissolves ~ everything becomes clear Buddha / Dhammapada / T. Byrom

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March 6th

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immediacy is true

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As soon as you sense any lingering or obstruction, all of it is false imagining. Just make your mind clean and free, like space, like a mirror, like the sun in the sky. Zen Master Yuanwu / "Zen Essence", Thomas Cleary tr.

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At that time neither you nor I had names. The radiant feelings of a seventeen-year-old and a sixteen-year-old on the grass of a riverbank, in the summer twilight, were the only things that mattered. (cont.)

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as my mother-in-law used to say, "interesting"...

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Each perspective is not only right but simultaneously wrong, because every perspective is just a piece of the pie, not the whole thing. Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi

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This consciousness is the spirit of guidance of each one. Be this one. Shiva answers Devi, “What is your reality?” Vigyan Bhairav Tantra / Zen Flesh Zen Bones / Reps and Senzaki

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To be in harmony with the cosmic system means letting go of everything. Then we become unity, and can take in fresh energy from the cosmos. Taisen Deshimaru Roshi

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"There are periods in the life of humanity, which generally coincide with the beginning of the fall of cultures and civilizations, when the masses irretrievably lose their reason and begin to destroy everything that has been created by centuries and millenniums of culture.

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Why is there evil in the world. "To thicken the plot." Ramakrishna

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Tao, Brahman, Self, God, Consciousness, Buddha Nature--all these are mere words that point to the indescribable, which is this immediate experiencing before thoughts intervene.

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You can't get out of It, but it is entirely possible that you may miss It.

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But whatever you say about yourself, you are the only one. You cannot escape, because the whole world is yours. This is beyond the truth that we can talk about. This is ultimate truth. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

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the first friends to mention moving overseas I look outside watch the birds take flight

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Religion means finding harmony with the cosmic system. Taisen Deshimaru Roshi

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You will realize it, when you embody it, like the moth that dives into a flame. There is no more moth and no more flame. Sokei-an Sasaki, Translation and Commentary, "Original Nature: Zen Comments on the Sixth Patriarch's Platform Sutra"

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You can transcend any situation by just looking at it and seeing what is, without commentary / judgement.

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Each man carries around him his own world of thoughts from which ripples go on spreading out continuously. These thought waves are also physical. What we know as the mind is a very subtle form of physical energy. Osho / "In Search of the Miraculous"

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All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but One Mind [Tao], beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po", John Blofield tr, [mine]

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Eyes closed, see your inner being in detail. Thus see your true nature. Shiva answers Devi, “What is your reality?” Vigyan Bhairav Tantra / "Zen Flesh Zen Bones" / Reps and Senzaki

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basically, america has got her dictator now

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Zazen is the return to the normal condition, the natural health of the body. Taisen Deshimaru Roshi

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The mind cries, then laughs, thinks of jewels, then of cigarettes, endlessly thinking of something. But it never pays attention to that which makes us think like clouds flowing in the sky. Sokei-an Sasaki

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although awareness never leaves you, unless you are present to it, you will miss the dance #awareness

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O Beloved, put attention neither on pleasure or pain but between these. Shiva answers Devi, “What is your reality?” Vigyan Bhairav Tantra / Zen Flesh Zen Bones / Reps and Senzaki

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Now.

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I notice things weirder than talking scarecrows in my "awake" consciousness. it occurs to me that this whole thing is possibly maybe could be a dream. but "certainty" is delusional.

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i know you rider going to miss me when i'm gone www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj1h...

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I have the good fortune to play principal oboe in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony in an upcoming concert. Here's Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic performing this. Watch Lenny -- he is really enjoying conducting and being a part of the performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VY...

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choiceless awareness of the now is instantaneous balancing

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Be the unsame same to friend as to stranger, in honor and dishonor. Shiva answers Devi, “What is your reality?” Vigyan Bhairav Tantra / "Zen Flesh Zen Bones" / Reps and Senzaki

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In Buddhism, we are taught to empty the mind completely and to hear our conscience. It is the only way. Your looking glass is covered with filth, so clean it up. You must demolish all images, all previous conceptions. Your imagination must be cleaned up, too. (cont.)

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It's time to look at this anti-green [progressive] field a little more closely. If it is indeed the central overarching key to Trump's victory, understanding it will be crucial to helping to determine any genuinely effective responses. And failing to do so--and remaining merely (cont.) [mine]

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