Zeitlin, Hillel
"I pray and the trees pray with me. I bend and they bend with me; I bow and they bow with me." (05/03/2024)
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Zen Algorithm
"All is one, one is none, none is all." (02/27/2024)
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Zen Instruction
"Yet another elder said: "If you see a young monk by his own will climbing up to heaven, take him by the foot and throw hi to the ground, because what he is doing is not good for him." (10/17/2024)
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Zen Koan
"Once you realize your own nature, you are free of "birth and death." When your senses are gone, how do you free yourself?" (09/19/2022)
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"When you set yourself free of life and death, you should know your ultimate destination. So when the four elements separate, where will you go?" (01/26/2022)
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"Who is it that is dragging this corpse around?" (!1/23/2025)
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"You are not allowed to travel at night, but you must arrive before daybreak." (09/03/2024)
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Zen (“Lettuce” Zen)
“Three wandering monks, Seppo, Ganto, and Kinzan, had lost their way while making a pilgrimage through the mountains. Then they spotted a green vegetable leaf floating down a stream, which meant that someone was living up the mountain. But they decided that anyone careless enough to lose one vegetable leaf was not worth meeting. Just then they saw a man with a long- handled hook racing along the stream, looking for his leaf.” (03/03/2025)
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Zen Mondo
"A monk asked Kegon, "What happens when an enlightened being returns to the state of illusion?"
"Kegon said, "A broken mirror does not reflect, fallen flowers do not bud." (12/11/2024)
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"A monk asked Shih-kung, "How should I escape birth and death?"
Shih-kung replied, "What is the use of escaping it?" (04/27/2024)
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A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered, "How am I supposed to know?"
"How do you know? You're a Zen master!" exclaimed the samurai.
"Yes, but not a dead one," Hakuin answered. (10/29/2022)
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"A Zen master received the news that his son had died. But his students are perplexed to see him crying -- isn't he enlightened, and hadn't he transcended desire and suffering? Confronted by his students, the master explained his tears. Because I'm sad." (08/22/2024)
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"After a public reading Bernie Glassman gave, a woman in the audience stood up and asked; "What does it take to live in the Now?"
"Glassman answered: "Would anyone who is not living in the Now please stand up?" (11/11/2025)
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"An American seeker: "If you follow any way, you will never get there; and if you do not follow any way, you will never get there. So one faces a dilemma."
"Hisamatsu: "Let the dilemma be your way!" (03/12/2024)
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"Once when Yakusan was sitting, Sekito saw him and asked: "What are you doing here?"
"Yakusan said, "I'm not doing anything."
"Sekito said, "Then you are just sitting idly."
"If I were sitting idly, that would be doing something," Yakusan said.
"You said you are not doing anything," Sekito said. "What is it that you aren't doing?'
"Even the saints don't know," said Yakusan. (10/09/2025)
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"One day Nan-ch'uan told Kuei-tsung and Ma-yu that he was going to take them to visit the National Teacher. Before they began their journey, Nan-ch'uan drew a circle on the road and said, "As soon as you give a right answer, we will be on our way." Immediately Kuei-tsung sat down inside the circle and Ma-yu bowed. Nan-ch'uan said: "Judging by this answer, it will not be necessary to go." (08/01/2022)
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"What is the most miraculous of all mistakes?
"That I sit quietly by myself." (05/03/2023)
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"When Daisetz T. Suzuki was once asked, "What is Zen?" his answer was: "Zen is that which makes you ask the question, for the answer comes from where the question arises ... When you ask what Zen is, you are asking who you are, what your Self is. Isn't it the height of stupidity to ask what your Self is, when it is this very Self that makes you ask the question.?" (10/23/2023)
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"When Governor Lu was about to return to his office, he came to say goodbye to Nan-ch'uan. The Master asked him: "Governor, you are going back to the capitol. How will you govern the people?
"The Governor replied: " I will govern them through wisdom."
"The Master remarked: "If this is true, the people will suffer for it." (10/1y/2022)
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Zen Proverb
"Consider the trees which allow the birds to perch and fly away without either inviting them to stay or desiring them never to depart. If your heart can be like this, you will be near to the Way." (09/02/2022)
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"If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are." (10/16/2022)
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"Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom." (11/02/2022)
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"The world is won by those who let it go."
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Zen Riddle
"There is a man who eats sparingly but is never hungry. There is a man who is always eating but is never full." (07/09/2024)
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Zen Saying
"Be master of yourself -- everywhere: All you do proves true." (09/07/2025)
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"Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us accident-prone." (08/16/2025)
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"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool -- shun him.
"He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child -- teach him.
"He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep -- wake him.
"But he who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man -- follow him." (06/29/2022)
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"No seed ever sees the flower." (05/14/2023)
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“In spiritual practice there are only two things: You sit and you sweep the garden. And it does not matter how big the garden is.” (02/10/2025)
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"On whose door does the moonlight not shine?" (07/14/2024)
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"The flowers fall, for all our yearning; weeds grow, regardless of our dislike." (08/25/2024)
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"The only thing preventing enlightenment is searching for it." (03/02/2024)
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"There is a treasure in the deep mountains; he who has no desire for it finds it." (06/11/2024)
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"To understand nothing takes time." (05/11/2024)
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"Your practice is your life."
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Zen Story
"A master and his attendant were traveling and stopped at an inn. The master went to his room to practice zazen, and to continue to work on the koan: "What is Buddha?"
"Chao-chou responded: "A cypress tree in the garden."
"Before going to bed, the attendant knocked on the master's door to check on him. There was no response. The attendant opened the door and peeked in, and beheld a massive tree rooted in the center of the room." (10/30/2025)
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"A young woman watched a sage drawing water from the village well. Slowly, hand over hand, the old man pulled up the wooden bucket of water. After some time, the young woman left and returned with a pulley, and excitedly explained how to use it, and how easy it would be to draw water by cranking the handle. The old man refused: "Were I to use a device like this, my mind would congratulate itself on being so clever, and then I would quit putting my heart into what I was doing. ... If I don't put my heart and my whole body into my work, my work will become joyless. And how, then, do you think the water would taste?" (10/14/2025)
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"For forty years, a fisherman in China used a straight needle to fish with. Whenever someone asked him why he didn't use a bent hook, the fisherman always replied, "You catch an ordinary fish with a bent hook, but I will catch a great fish with my straight hook."
Finally, word of this reached the emperor, who decided to visit this foolish fisherman himself. After the emperor saw the man fishing with a straight needle, he asked, "What are you fishing for?"
The fisherman said: "I am fishing for you, Emperor." (01/13/2025)
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"One day the master was just about to give a sermon when a bird started to sing. The master said nothing and everyone listened to the bird. When the song stopped, the master announced that the sermon had been preached and went on his way." (03/19/2025)
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"One evening a farmer was just drifting off to sleep when he heard a noise in the orchard outside. Investigating, he noticed a young man from the village up in one of his trees, stealing fruit. Quietly the farmer went into the shed where he kept his ladder and brought it to the tree so that the thief might safely climb down and slip away unharmed." (08/28/2023)
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Zenrin-Kushu ("Anthology of Passages from the Forests of Zen") - A00129
"Entering the forest, he does not disturb a blade of grass;
"Entering the water, he does not cause a ripple." (03/08/2022) (12/20/2024)
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Zhuang Zhou see Chuang-tzu
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Zhuangzi
“Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views — then the world will be governed.” (02/26/2025)
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Zi Ye
"All night I could not sleep
"Because of the moonlight on my bed.
"I kept hearing a voice calling:
"Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered "yes." (10/27/2025)
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Zimmer, Heinrich
"Knowledge is the reward of action; for it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role." (09/30/2022)
The Zohar
"When one contemplates things, everything is revealed as one." (04/17/2024)
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