"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
– Thich Thien-An
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Hi, I'm here to keep Mastodon a beautiful place. I post a #Zen quote every day at 7 AM CET. Enjoy!
"The moon reflected on the water is the same moon that shines in the sky. The mind of #compassion is like water, and the mind of wisdom is like the moon."
– Zen Master Dōgen
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"People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring."
– Bodhidharma
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"Zen pretty much comes down to three things – everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention."
– Jane Hirshfield
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"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise."
– Gautama Buddha
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"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."
– Gautama Buddha
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"I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom."
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive – just be ordinary."
– Linji Yixuan
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"The true purpose (of Zen) is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes."
– Shunryu Suzuki
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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
– Thich Thien-An
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"Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?"
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us? "
– Gautama Buddha
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"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."
– Bodhidharma
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"At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind."
– Bodhidharma
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"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded."
– Gautama Buddha
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
– Gautama Buddha
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"Suppose a warrior, forgetting that he was already wearing his pearl on his forehead, were to seek for it elsewhere, he could travel the whole world without finding it."
– Huangbo Xiyun
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"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking."
– Bodhidharma
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"Every suffering is a #Buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to #buddhahood. You can’t say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain."
– Bodhidharma
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"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."
– Bodhidharma
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"We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself."
– Gautama Buddha
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"Learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything."
– Huangbo Xiyun
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"If you meet the #Buddha on the road, kill him."
– Linji Yixuan
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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
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
– Confucius
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"Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am.' I say, 'I do not think, that is why I exist.'"
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
– David Sylvian
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"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
– Bodhidharma
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"To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form"
– Huangbo Xiyun
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"Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial."
– Bodhidharma
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"If you would spend all your time—walking, standing, sitting or lying down—learning to halt the concept-forming activities of your own mind, you could be sure of ultimately attaining the goal."
– Huangbo Xiyun
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