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[goblinberry @goblinberry1]

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Henry Rollins

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

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[Emanuel Ciocu @ECiocu]

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[Laszlo Szedres @mokushozen]

Oryoki a shuryoban - étkezés a nyári gyakorlóperiódus alatt, 2026, Hoboji zen templom, https://t.co/iXBj4fKvcj

[goblinberry @goblinberry1]

Highest Form Of Intelligence: Metacognition Ep 4 https://t.co/ybUokjbCaa via @YouTube

[Laszlo Szedres @mokushozen]

England France first goal… Ango 2026

[☥ Yuge Bigly🌹 @space_treasure8]

No One Awakens: The Honesty of Zen

There is a quiet assumption hidden beneath the spiritual impulse: that something is missing, that what you are now is insufficient, and that somewhere—through effort, insight, or transformation—you will arrive at what you are not yet. This assumption is rarely questioned. It feels natural, even noble. But Zen does not refine this movement. It interrogates it so completely that nothing remains to stand on.

The problem is not suffering, confusion, or even ignorance. The problem is the one who claims ownership of them.

Zen does not guide that one toward freedom. It reveals that this “one” is a construction—assembled from memory, language, and repetition—and has never existed in the way it assumes. What is dismantled is not a person in any literal sense, but the unquestioned belief in a center that stands apart from experience, directing, controlling, and progressing through it.

Huineng expressed it with stark precision:
“Originally there is not a single thing—where can dust alight?”

This is not philosophy. It is a direct observation. When looked at closely, the one who seeks cannot be found outside of thought. It appears as a narrative—a continuity imposed after the fact. Experience unfolds, and only afterward does thought claim: “I did this,” “I felt that,” “I am becoming.”

Zen cuts through this retroactive illusion.

To say that the seeker is undone is not to suggest destruction in the conventional sense. It is the collapse of a false attribution. Like mist dissolving under sunlight, nothing real is harmed—only the belief in something that never had substance to begin with.

This is why Zen often appears ruthless. It offers no comfort to the identity that wants to persist. It refuses to validate the one who wants to awaken. It does not say, “You will be free.” It asks, “Who is the ‘you’ that requires freedom?”

Linji was uncompromising:
“If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.”

This is not violence—it is clarity. Any image you hold, even of awakening, becomes another object in thought. And whatever can be held is not what you are.

The paradox is immediate: the very effort to become free reinforces the illusion of bondage. The search assumes distance. It creates time, progress, and identity. But what is being sought is not elsewhere, not later, and not dependent on becoming anything other than what is already present.

Dōgen pointed directly to this:
“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by all things.”

Notice the movement here. Not improvement. Not transcendence. Forgetting. The falling away of the one who stands apart. And in that absence, there is no gap between experience and what is aware of it.

What remains is not an attainment. It is the absence of misidentification.

Ordinary activity continues—walking, speaking, thinking—but without the overlay of ownership. Life happens, but there is no center claiming authorship of it. This is not passivity. It is intimacy without division.

Before this is seen, the question is: “How do I become free?”
After it is seen, the question no longer arises.

Not because it was answered—but because the one asking it cannot be located.

This is the uncompromising heart of Zen. It does not improve the seeker. It reveals there never was one.

And what remains is not a void in the nihilistic sense, but a simplicity so immediate it is usually overlooked: this moment, unclaimed, undivided, already complete.

[Laszlo Szedres @mokushozen]

everyday tea and rice… #ango2026 #hoboji

[Kaviji @KavijiPoet]

True Spirituality Will Leave You Empty - That's Not a Bad Thing.

[Laszlo Szedres @mokushozen]

Ango 2026.

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

EVERYTHING YOU ARE AFRAID TO LOSE IS NOT ACTUALLY YOU

This is the hardest teaching to accept and the only one that actually sets you free. The identity you cling to, your reputation, your plans, your image of who you’re supposed to be, none of it is the self Aurobindo is talking about. It is armor. And armor, no matter how carefully built, was never the body underneath it.

Aurobindo did not arrive at this teaching through comfort. He wrote it from within a life that had already been stripped down by imprisonment, exile, and total reinvention. What he found on the other side of losing everything external was not devastation. It was the discovery of something that had been there the entire time, waiting beneath the wreckage, untouched by any of it.

Every tradition that has gone deep enough says the same thing in different language. The Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna paralyzed, refusing to fight, terrified of losing everything he identifies with.

Krishna’s answer is not comfort. It is a direct confrontation: the soul is never born and never dies, what you fear losing was never the eternal part of you to begin with. The Stoics called this the discipline of desire, learning, in advance, to hold everything external loosely, because none of it was ever truly yours to keep.

You do not find what is indestructible in you by protecting yourself. You find it by discovering what remains after protection fails.

What are you most afraid of losing, and have you ever asked whether that thing was truly you?

~ Pyramid Consciousness

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[Laszlo Szedres @mokushozen]

Elkezdődött a nyáritábor, szombatig a Taisenjiben, szabadon jöhettek akár egy-egy zazenre is.

[Kaviji @KavijiPoet]

Plunge your roots into the earth
open your crown to the heavens
and become the beautiful instrument of the divine you are.

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

In human beings,
There is a need
To create order
Out of what is
Perceived to be chaos.
This ordering mechanism is
The mind.
As such, the mind seeks causes
To explain what it
Doesn't understand.

Wu Hsin

[Soumya @ecstatic_0]

Without honesty, you won't learn the lessons that life wants to teach you and that will make you (person) stuck in the loop of karma.

If you want to know yourself be truthful, that's enough.

Because lying makes you imagine things that are not here and your discriminatory powers reduce.

You no longer listen to yourself, your conscience.

That's the cause of all suffering.

Freedom is realising you don't need a mask of the ego, you can be as you are - as Ramana Maharshi says.

[Kaviji @KavijiPoet]

The grail, the garden, the love
are there deep inside your heart
already calling you home.

Despite your mind's doubt
you are, even now, circling the flame
waiting for the divine moment
to give yourself to yourself.

[Kaviji @KavijiPoet]

Give no more energy to the matrix
it’s a pain body world
that feeds on your pain.

Don’t give it your precious life force
but if you must feed it something
feed it love without condition.

[RamanaEssence @RamanaEssence]

Being beyond samadhi and distraction, the great soul is neither an aspirant for liberation nor the reverse. Having ascertained the universe to be a figment, even though he sees it, he exists as Brahman Itself.

Ashtavakra Gita

[Kaviji @KavijiPoet]

The Heart Knows.