#spirituality ( #Adi-Nath / #Nath Sampradāya, #Advaita #Vedanta, #Vajrayāna Buddhist + #Bönpo #Dzogchen, #Zen #Buddhism (incl. #Fuke-shū, #Rinzai, #Sotō, #Ōbaku, &c.), &c.); #Daoic thought (incl. #Daojia); &c.), of other mixtures of #illuminationist + #liberationist thought.
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each world
its own meme

of personal illusion

- shake 'a wake, buddha!

#ebm #senryu #industrial #rinzai

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Interior of Ryogen-in's main hall, believed to be Daitoku-ji's oldest building.

Entrance to Ryogen-in.

Ryogen-in's Koda-tei garden.

Interior of Ryogen-in's main hall, believed to be Daitoku-ji's oldest building.

Founded in 1502 by Tōkei Sōboku (東渓宗牧), 72nd head of Daitoku-ji, Ryōgen-in's main hall (originally the abbot's residence) is thought to be the complex's oldest building.

5 Gardens:
🪨Koda-tei (滹沱底)
🪨Isshi-dan (一枝坦)
🌿Kaiso-dō garden (開祖堂)
🌿Ryōgin-tei
🪨Tōtekiko

#Ryogenin #Daitokuji #zen #Rinzai

Self-portrait of Zen master Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴, 1686–1768), 1767. Hakuin pursued a vigorous and dynamic style of Zen practice, emphasizing the integration of awakening into daily life. His teachings and methods revitalized the Rinzai tradition, making it accessible to a broader audience. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: public domain)

#Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1769) revitalized Japanese #Rinzai #Zen through rigorous #kōan practice, dynamic integration of #awakening into daily life, and innovative teaching methods. His emphasis on post-#satori training and outreach to #laypeople established a […]

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seeing without being deceived by color and form, hearing without being deceived by sounds, tasting without being deceived by tastes, touching without being deceived by touch, and thinking without being deceived by mental configurations.

- #Zen Master #Rinzai

What we usually call supernatural powers are not the Buddha’s ... The Buddha’s supernatural powers are the true ones, and only a Buddha possesses them:

- #Zen Master #Rinzai

#Saihō-ji, #Rinzai #Zen #Buddhist #Temple in #Matsuo, Nishikyō Ward #Kyoto, #Japan by Ernst Haas
#Photography
#Tranquility
#Landscape
#Nature

Standing Up Injustice is our responsibility.

Standing Up

Injustice is our responsibility.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/06/stan...

#antinomianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #dharma, #hermitpractice, #Quaker, #quietism, #Rinzai, #sangha, #Zen

Standing Up Some months ago I had a refreshing conversation on Zen ethics with a fellow hermit on Mastodon. We're equally sceptical of quietism – the religious posture by which forms are judged sufficient to practice and action anathema – and our discussion helped me clarify some of my own thoughts on a matter that's critically pressing. The quietist temptation pervades contemplative religions: this notion that real Zenners sit serenely with a satisfied smirk on their faces while injustice gallops unchallenged and others suffer. It's easy to mistake that for dharma. Quietism is the opposite of theological activism: the idea that true practice means doing good outside in the Red Dust World. Western Zenners most commonly encounter its ad absurdum form in those Christians who are called to sing, exhort, and engage in public "praise" (an archaic word for advertising) by way of filibustering hesitant believers and driving converts to the fold, where they too will presumably join in such questionable practice. We non-Christians and former Christians tend to lean hard on this demographic when the topic of activism comes up, since this sort of exercise is easily criticised. But let us note also the Christians who care for the poor and imprisoned; assist the stranger and the foreigner; educate the illiterate; raise the downtrodden; and actively enhance the levels of hope and opportunity in their community. A rare few publicly oppose deliberate evil, often at significant personal risk, while others – Quakers, for example – go so far as to confront passive evil. While a minuscule fraction of the whole, these last still trounce the percentage of Buddhists doing it. Which brings me back to the exchange with my brother. We began on common ground, agreeing that the popular Zen position that practice excuses us from protest is erroneous. That, said I, is an illogical conclusion; ethical people act, and as I've written before, if practice doesn't result in an ethical person, there's no need of it. (I, for example, am already a fully-transmitted self-absorbed jackass. No need for cushions, candles, or things that go ding.) In the end, my brother summed up this entire meditation in words he'd come to several years ago: > "If you don't sometimes sit down and shut up, you'll never be enlightened. > > "If you don't sometimes stand up and shout, there's no reason to be enlightened." He also offered an alternative phrasing (another translation, what) that I call "the Rinzai version": > "If you never get your ass on the cushion, you can never become enlightened. > > "If you never get your ass off the cushion, there is no point to becoming enlightened." Regular readers will comprehend which of these I'm most given to. _(Photograph of police arresting a Buddhist sitting lotus during theClayoquot Sound protests courtesy of Aldo de Moor and Wikimedia Commons.)_

Standing Up

Injustice is our responsibility.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/06/standing-up.html

#antinomianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #dharma, #hermitpractice, #Quaker, #quietism, #Rinzai, #sangha, #Zen

Standing Up Injustice is our responsibility.

Standing Up

Injustice is our responsibility.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/06/stan...

#antinomianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #dharma, #hermitpractice, #Quaker, #quietism, #Rinzai, #sangha, #Zen

Standing Up Some months ago I had a refreshing conversation on Zen ethics with a fellow hermit on Mastodon. We're equally sceptical of quietism – the religious posture by which forms are judged sufficient to practice and action anathema – and our discussion helped me clarify some of my own thoughts on a matter that's critically pressing. The quietist temptation pervades contemplative religions: this notion that real Zenners sit serenely with a satisfied smirk on their faces while injustice gallops unchallenged and others suffer. It's easy to mistake that for dharma. Quietism is the opposite of theological activism: the idea that true practice means doing good outside in the Red Dust World. Western Zenners most commonly encounter its ad absurdum form in those Christians who are called to sing, exhort, and engage in public "praise" (an archaic word for advertising) by way of filibustering hesitant believers and driving converts to the fold, where they too will presumably join in such questionable practice. We non-Christians and former Christians tend to lean hard on this demographic when the topic of activism comes up, since this sort of exercise is easily criticised. But let us note also the Christians who care for the poor and imprisoned; assist the stranger and the foreigner; educate the illiterate; raise the downtrodden; and actively enhance the levels of hope and opportunity in their community. A rare few publicly oppose deliberate evil, often at significant personal risk, while others – Quakers, for example – go so far as to confront passive evil. While a minuscule fraction of the whole, these last still trounce the percentage of Buddhists doing it. Which brings me back to the exchange with my brother. We began on common ground, agreeing that the popular Zen position that practice excuses us from protest is erroneous. That, said I, is an illogical conclusion; ethical people act, and as I've written before, if practice doesn't result in an ethical person, there's no need of it. (I, for example, am already a fully-transmitted self-absorbed jackass. No need for cushions, candles, or things that go ding.) In the end, my brother summed up this entire meditation in words he'd come to several years ago: > "If you don't sometimes sit down and shut up, you'll never be enlightened. > > "If you don't sometimes stand up and shout, there's no reason to be enlightened." He also offered an alternative phrasing (another translation, what) that I call "the Rinzai version": > "If you never get your ass on the cushion, you can never become enlightened. > > "If you never get your ass off the cushion, there is no point to becoming enlightened." Regular readers will comprehend which of these I'm most given to. _(Photograph of police arresting a Buddhist sitting lotus during theClayoquot Sound protests courtesy of Aldo de Moor and Wikimedia Commons.)_

Standing Up

Injustice is our responsibility.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/06/standing-up.html

#antinomianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #dharma, #hermitpractice, #Quaker, #quietism, #Rinzai, #sangha, #Zen

A Lineage of Dullards: Zen Master Tōjū Reisō and his associates > Through a study of three monks, Tōjū Reisō, Tairyū Bun'i, and Seishū Shusetsu, strategies employed to preserve Rinzai Zen spiritual legacy in the face of the turmoil of Meiji are highlighted. These monks did their best to continue their eremetic existence and to pick up the pieces left by the widespread destruction of Buddhist temples and monasteries in early Meiji Japan.

📰 Zen Master Tōjū Reisō and his associates (A free, 15-page article from 1998)

Tags: #JapaneseBuddhism #Rinzai #Meiji #Monk #Buddhism

#Moss covered #Bridge, #Rinzai #Zen #Buddhist #Temple located in #Matsuo, #NishikyōWard, #Kyoto, #Japan.
Unknown Photographer
#Photography
#Nature
#Landscape

lunar delight

If you know that fundamentally there is nothing to seek, you have settled your affairs. —Rinzai

#Rinzai #nothing

Stones rise up into the sky
Fire burns down in the water
Ride your horse along the edge of a sword;
Hide yourself in the middle of the flames
Blossoms of the fruit-tree bloom in the fire
The sun rises in the evening

-from Zen-rinkushu

#zenlibrary #zenquotes #zenpoetry #rinzai

An acrylic portrait of a bald middle-aged man wearing a marigold Buddhist monk’s robe and meditating in the half-lotus position. In the background are the four natural elements: earth to the east, air to the west, water to the south, and fire to the north.

“There is one true person of no rank, always coming out and going in through the gates of your face.” — Rinzai Gigen Zenji, #Buddhist and #Rinzai #Zen teacher

1/2 practically equate #Zazen and #Satori.
In the #Rinzai school, which dates back to Myōan Eisai in 1191, the attainment of satori is practised through the meditation of
➡️ paradoxical teachings ( #kōans).

Accordingly, Daisetz Teitaro #Suzuki describes two paths to satori:

#Buddhism #Zen #ZenBuddhism #Hakuin #HakuinEkaku #Rinzai #RinzaiZen #pantheism #apotheosis #monad #spirituality #mysticism #Buddhist #JapaneseBuddhism #koan #meditation #Buddhistcomedy #Buddhismjoke #spiritualshitposting #Buddhistshitposting #Zenshitpost #commentary #humor #comedy #goofy

lunar delight

If you know that fundamentally there is nothing to seek, you have settled your affairs. —Rinzai

#Rinzai #nothing

Buddhist Quote for Today: Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481)

See more: youtube.com/shorts/nVRi8...

#buddhistquotes #buddha #dharma #buddhism #mahayana #rinzai #zen #japan #kyoto #japanesebuddhism #liberation #mindfulness #meditation #compassion #peace #buddhistpractice #bodhisattva #quoteoftheday

Buddhist Quote for Today: Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma / And endlessly chant complicated sutras. / Before doing that, though, they should learn / How to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. — Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481) See more: buddhistdoor.net

Buddhist Quote for Today: Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481)

See more: buddhistdoor.net

#buddhistquotes #buddha #dharma #buddhism #mahayana #rinzai #zen #japan #kyoto #japanesebuddhism #liberation #mindfulness #meditation #compassion #peace #buddhistpractice #bodhisattva #quoteoftheday

"My miracle is that when I am hungry, I eat, and when I am tired, I sleep"
Bankei Yotaku, 1622-1693
#zen #rinzai #zenbuddhism