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brian walker

@brianwalker

zen and tao, then and now

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Author of Tao te Ching, I Ching, Hua hu Ching, Art of War, & Wei wu Wei Ching + 5 apps for iOS / Android, sometimes a film, plenty of foolishness.  www.brianbrownewalker.com 🌞🌏🎶❤️🤙🏼 https://earthnationlive.org  Fan of the zen proverb "A donkey carrying a pile of holy books is still a donkey." It me! 😘

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  1. Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal in life is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutu
  2. To still the mind, gently join it to the breath. Once this is established and steadily maintained, grace inhabits every act. ~Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 22 (image: on this date a buddha was born ) #tao #taoism #zen #buddhism #buddha #enlightenment #meditation #life
  3. This world is a place of preparation where one is given many lessons and passes many tests. Choose less over more in it. Be satisfied with what you have, even if it is less than what others have. In fact, prefer to have less. This world is not bad — on the contrary, it is the field of the
  4. The way to study true zen is not verbal. Just open yourself and give up everything. Whatever happens , study closely and see what you find out. This is the fundamental attitude. ~Shunryu Suzuki (image: emmet gowin ) #zen #buddhism #buddha #tao #taoism #enlightenment #meditation #life
  5. With thoughts clear, sitting silently, wander into the centre of the circle of wonder. This is how you must penetrate and study. ~Hongzhi #zen #buddhism #buddha #tao #taoism #enlightenment #meditation #life
  6. With thoughts clear, sitting silently, wander into the centre of the circle of wonder. This is how you must penetrate and study. ~Hongzhi #zen #buddhism #buddha #tao #taoism #enlightenment #meditation #life
  7. The work of learning the Way requires greater intimacy with each passing day, greater intimacy with each passing hour. Eventually you develop spontaneous familiarity and unite with the Way. ~The Cultivator of Realization #tao #taoism #zen #buddhism #buddha #enlightenment #meditation #l
  8. don’t learn from a pampered cat

    You want to learn to catch a mouse? Don’t try to learn from a pampered cat. If you want to learn the nature of the world, don’t study fine bound books. The True Jewel’s in a coarse bag. Buddha-nature stops at huts. The whole herd of folks who clutch at the outside of things never seem t
  9. if i had a mountain

    if I had a mountain i would sit straight all day contemplating nothing but the way the wind blows maybe even not that maybe just sit there breathing in the quiet heart whatever that is ~oracle of the turtle #tao #taoism #zen #buddhism #buddha #enlightenment #meditation #li
  10. within purity, grasping does not exist

    Repeatedly undergoing birth and death is just due to grasping at objects. When we reflect back on the mind that grasps at objects, we see that the real identity of mind is originally pure. Within this purity, grasping mind does not exist. Within nirvana, fundamentally there are no thoug
  11. don’t long for heavens or fear hells

    Don’t seek a Buddha, don’t seek a teaching, don’t seek a community. Don’t seek virtue, knowledge, intellectual understanding, and so on. When feelings of defilement and purity are ended, still don’t hold to this non-seeking and consider it right. Don’t dwell at the point of ending, and don
  12. remaining ordinary, foregoing airs

    Do you wish to realize the Way? Dissolve everything instantly, like a drop of water hitting a red-hot coal. Forget thoughts and feelings and ideas of self. Remaining ordinary, foregoing airs, persevering in simplicity for years and decades, you enter into the Oneness, and it into you. ~Wei wu
  13. fix your attention on your own path

    Fix all your attention on your own path, and do not imitate others. Your life is unique, and your karma is yours alone. ~Taisen Deshimaru image: ’79 pepsi pro skate team #zen #buddhism #buddha #tao #taoism #enlightenment #meditation #life
  14. everything born in this world is empty

    Students, sit earnestly in zazen, and you will realize that everything born in this world is ultimately empty, including oneself and the original face of existence. All things indeed emerge out of emptiness. This original formlessness is “Buddha,” and all other similar terms — Buddha- n
  15. we are all wanderers in the unknown

    We are all wanderers in the Unknown. Those who travel beside the Sage are protected from harm. A person who travels as a stranger in a strange land is wise to display an attitude free of arrogance and belligerence. Otherwise he is liable to meet with trouble and find himself unabl
  16. beautiful things grow out of shit

    “What would be really interesting for people to see is how beautiful things grow out of shit, because nobody ever believes that, you know. Everybody thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head -- they somehow appeared there and formed in his head, and all
  17. a leader must gather within herself proper principles

    To lead others toward the good, one must purify one’s own character. The I Ching teaches that the world cannot move toward harmony and well-being unless human beings act in unison to further what is good and true. Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as fa
  18. live in accord with the tao and immerse in its blessings

    He who desires the admiration of the world will do well to amass a great fortune and then give it away. The world will respond with admiration in proportion to the size of his treasure. Of course, this is meaningless. Stop striving after admiration. Place your esteem on the tao. Live in
  19. mastery is yours to embody

    Your enlightenment is right where you stand. Look outside yourself no longer. Dissolve your false understandings completely and accept the reality that mastery is yours to embody. ~Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 14 #zen #buddhism #buddha #tao #taoism #enlightenment #meditation #life ( possessio
  20. you are no different from buddha

    You are no different from buddha. There is no other dharma. Simply let your mind be carefree. You do not need to contemplate your action and to purify your mind. Let your mind be boundless and without any obstruction. Be free from going and coming. Whether you walk or stay, s

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