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    01 Apr '23 13:29
    In all things be a master
    Of what you do and say and think.
    Be free.
    Are you quiet?
    Quieten your body.
    Quieten your mind.
    By your own efforts
    Waken yourself, watch,
    And live joyfully.
    Follow the truth of the way.
    Reflect upon it.
    Make it your own.
    Live it.
    It will always sustain you.

    Buddha from the Dhammapada
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    01 Apr '23 19:14
    @rookie54 said
    In all things be a master
    Of what you do and say and think.
    Be free.
    Are you quiet?
    Quieten your body.
    Quieten your mind.
    By your own efforts
    Waken yourself, watch,
    And live joyfully.
    Follow the truth of the way.
    Reflect upon it.
    Make it your own.
    Live it.
    It will always sustain you.

    Buddha from the Dhammapada
    Pretty much wraps it up.

    That Buddha guy was a very wise man.
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    02 Apr '23 11:38
    In a pellucid ocean,

    Bubbles arise and dissolve again.

    Just so, thoughts are no

    Different from ultimate reality,

    So don’t find fault; remain at ease.

    Whatever arises, whatever occurs,

    Don’t grasp—release it on the spot.

    Appearances, sounds, and objects

    Are all one’s own mind;

    There’s nothing except mind.

    Buddha
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    03 Apr '23 13:35
    Forty-some years I’ve lived in the mountains
    Ignorant of the world’s rise and fall
    Warmed at night by a stove full of pine needles
    Satisfied at noon by a bowl of wild plants
    Sitting on rocks watching clouds and empty thoughts
    Patching my robe in sunlight practicing silence
    Till someone asks why Bodhidharma came east
    And I hang out my wash.

    ~ Shih-wu (1252-1352)
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    04 Apr '23 13:42
    The iris pond has flowered
    Before the old temple;
    I sell tea this evening
    By the water’s edge.
    It is steeped in the cups
    With the moon and stars;
    Drink and wake forever
    From your worldly sleep.

    ~ Baisao (1675-1763)
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    05 Apr '23 13:26
    In the still night by the vacant window,
    wrapped in monk’s robe I sit in meditation,
    navel and nostrils lined up straight,
    ears paired to the slope of shoulders.
    Window whitens--the moon comes up;
    rain’s stopped, but drops go on dripping.
    Wonderful—the mood of this moment;
    distant, vast.

    ~ Ryokan (1758-1831)
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    06 Apr '23 13:37
    You ask why I live
    in the mountain forest,
    I smile, and am silent,
    and even deep within remain quiet:
    the peach trees blossom,
    the water flows.

    ~ Li T’ai-po (~701)
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    06 Apr '23 17:32
    @hakima said
    Pretty much wraps it up.

    That Buddha guy was a very wise man.
    Hi, Tell me the truth of the way please?
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    07 Apr '23 08:45
    At an overgrown cottage I found the restful life of a recluse.
    I have since lived alone, turning to songbirds for music,
    And for my friends I have white clouds rising in the sky.

    Beneath a massive rock, a spring swells in a fair stream,
    Its clear water washes the dust from my black garments.
    Near the ridges, tall pines and oaks rise towards heaven;

    Their branches and leaves give me warmth in cold weather.
    With nothing to worry me, not a care to disturb my peace,
    I live happily from day to day, until the day dawns no more for me.

    Ryōkan
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    07 Apr '23 13:02
    If everyone flocks to the world,
    who then will be a hermit?
    If everyone abandons the world,
    who then will manage the world?
    There is none like this Great Master
    who dwells between the two,
    neither defiled, nor pure;
    neither Vinaya, nor Ch’an,
    there is none like Hai-yueh.

    ~ Su Shih (1073)
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    08 Apr '23 14:53
    How profoundly silent is the temple of Tao!
    Boundless and infinite,
    It is the dwelling place of the divine.
    The light-hall is wide and high,
    Yet awed by silence.
    Forgetful of words I roam and rest here
    I have discarded the world of fame and profit.

    ~ Ni Tsan (1301-1374)
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    10 Apr '23 03:32
    Given free will but within certain limitations,
    I cannot will myself to limitless mutations,
    I cannot know what I would be if I were not me,
    I can only guess me.
    So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?
    What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?
    I have my senses and my sense of having senses.
    Do I guide them? Or they me?
    The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects.
    What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?
    Is there freedom to un-be?
    Is there freedom from will-to-be?
    Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way.
    We just invent or just assume a motivation.
    I would disperse, be disconnected. Is this possible?
    What are soldiers without a foe?
    Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air.
    Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended.
    Neither born nor left to die.
    Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.
    Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.
    Let me off please, I am so very tired.

    ~ Robert Wyatt and Alfreda Benge
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    11 Apr '23 13:19
    Forty-some years
    I’ve lived in the mountains
    Ignorant of the world’s rise and fall
    Warmed at night
    by a stove full of pine needles
    Satisfied at noon
    by a bowl of wild plants
    Sitting on rocks
    watching clouds and empty thoughts
    Patching my robe
    in sunlight practicing silence
    Till someone asks
    why Bodhidharma came east
    And I hang out my wash.

    ~ Shih-wu (1252-1352)
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    12 Apr '23 12:51
    Who dares approach the lion's
    Mountain cave?
    Cold, robust,
    A Zen man through and through,
    I let the spring breeze
    Enter at the gate

    ~ Daigu (1584-1669)
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    13 Apr '23 12:24
    The iris pond has flowered
    Before the old temple;
    I sell tea this evening
    By the water’s edge.
    It is steeped in the cups
    With the moon and stars;
    Drink and wake forever
    From your worldly sleep.

    ~ Baisao (1675-1763)
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