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I am a Zen practitioner, at an older stage of life, finding peace and clarity in the simplicity of the practice.

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Zen Master Ji Kwan about "Don't-Know Mind"
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There is a time of suffering,
and a time of forgetting.

Day folds into night,
night quietly becomes dawn.
All things flow,
all things change.

Remember:
nothing that arises
can remain forever.

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"Do you need more?! Do you need more than that?!!"

- Gu Ja Soen Sa Nim
 (Zen Master Namhee Chon,
Kwan Um Zen Schule Deutschland)

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https://t.co/x8jK0mHDLJ

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It already carries within it the seed of the new.

In times of transition (when things feel unclear):
Remain still and calm.
The change will happen by itself.
Your only task is not to resist.

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Yin & Yang: The Heart of Daoism

In bright & strong phases (when Yang is dominant):
Be grateful, but do not cling.
This phase will naturally transform on its own.
In difficult & dark phases (when Yin is dominant):
Don't fight against it.
This phase is not wrong, it is necessary.

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Gain turns to loss,
loss turns to gain.
Seasons change -
peace comes from accepting the weather. 🌿

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Forgiveness is not a one-time act;
forgiveness is a way of life.

- Martin Luther King Jr. ✨

A beautiful and profound reminder.

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Crocuses bloom for only weeks -
yet life is measured
by intensity,
not by time. 🌸

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Even the sharpest pain softens with time.

What feels unbearable today
will one day become quieter, lighter, more distant.

Impermanence is not the enemy
-
it is also a quiet promise.

Because if everything passes,
then suffering passes too.

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Everything passes.Even pain.
Sometimes we believe a feeling will last forever: a memory too strong, a loss too deep, a disappointment too heavy. In those moments it seems nothing can ever change.Yet life keeps moving. Like clouds drifting across the sky, our feelings too pass by.

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You cannot find yourself in the past.
You are not there - only a construction of the mind,
shadows woven from faded threads.

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"Try not to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in and let it go out."

- Shunryu Suzuki’s, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

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Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness."

- Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Master🌿

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“Whether death comes or not, change has already begun.”

- an old Zen whisper 🌿

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Dogmas are stones in the mind's river.
Let go - watch everything flow freely.

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If you accept impermanence & the imperfection of all things, loss is no longer loss, & death is no longer tragedy. It is simply the movement of one stream, without beginning or end, without past or future, unfolding in the infinite here & now.
No past to mend, no future to claim.

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No past to fix.
No future to win.
Just this breath,
moving through you.

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