Express your Zen in 10 words.

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Express your Zen in 10 words.

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All topic posts are subject to the ten words limit!
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el gatito wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2019 1:46 am All topic posts are subject to the ten words limit!
Only go straight
Don't know
Try, try, try
10,000 years


_/|\_
Keith
When walking, standing, sitting, lying down, speaking,
being silent, moving, being still.
At all times, in all places, without interruption - what is this?
One mind is infinite kalpas.

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Oh great Maha!
In emptiness, only obtain for all beings!
It’s eye blinking.
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'Twas my first Zen koan, to follow in next post.
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Who are you?
I don't know.
Where is the door?
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How are you?
I am fine thank you.
And you?
It’s eye blinking.
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sit amid the flames
sit amid the peace
just so
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I have no Zen to express
Just this and this
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the mirror only
gets obfuscated by steam
throughout my shower
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Ten words is way
too many words to
express Zen.
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Dan74 wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:09 pm I have no Zen to express
Just this and this
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buying broken laptops
on a flea market
fixing and selling
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but
business is slow
too much effort
profits too low
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Zen isn't a philosophy.
It is beyond words
and intellect.
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What is mind?
After seeking kalpas,
Not speck of dirt
It’s eye blinking.
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When you're hungry,
go eat. I'm hungry,
off to eat.
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el gatito wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:45 pm ne boltai.jpeg
Dan74 wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:09 pm I have no Zen to express
Just this and this
:D
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Every moment
Mind grasps to everything
It constructs duality
Discern!
It’s eye blinking.
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Streams around unmoved stone
Empty as my wet rock head
http://www.khyung.com ཁྲོཾ

Om Thathpurushaya Vidhmahe
Suvarna Pakshaya Dheemahe
Thanno Garuda Prachodayath

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I drink tea
and pee pee
Poetry: not for me

:coffee:
“Observing samaya involves to remain inseparable from the union of wisdom and compassion at all times, to sustain mindfulness, and to put into practice the guru’s instructions”. Garchen Rinpoche

For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.

- Arya Sanghata Sutra
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