"You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Deshimaru #TaisenDeshimaru
"Zen is beyond this: there is no man, no woman. During #Zazen, no female, no male. No masculine, no feminine. The sexual organs are not at all important. Women in #Zazen are better off-they don’t have testicles which get in their way."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Deshimaru
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"Everything in the universe is connected. Everything is osmosis. You cannot separate any part from the whole interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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"Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am.' I say, 'I do not think, that is why I exist.'"
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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"#Zazen is like water in a glass. Leave the water to sit quietly and soon the dirt will sink down, down, and the water will become pure."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve – as if you might die in the next instant."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Religions remain what they are. Zen is #meditation. meditation is the foundation of every religion."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Think with your whole body."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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"#Zazen means to stop running after and to stop running away."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To have a few precious stones is better than to have many pebbles. If everyone became a precious stone, then the stones would lose their value."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"The error of #democracy is that people imitate others and do not create anything."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Deshimaru
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"Sometimes I am a philosopher, sometimes a religious person, sometimes a monk, sometimes an educator, sometimes a whiskey-drinker."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To have #compassion is to have the same mind as the other."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Zen is physical education. It is not a gymnastic, nor is it a martial art. The action of the body influences mind and consciousness."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, the technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, the mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Even if we hate the weed, and even if we abandon this hate of the weed, it will grow."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"What is called #Zazen is sitting on a zafu in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"During #Zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It’s exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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