Forget About Your Life Situation And Pay Attention To Your Life. Your Life Situation Exists In Time.

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

— Buddha

The only Zen you'll find on the mountaintop

is the Zen you brought up with you

Nonetheless, there is value in the journey

“The aesthetic principles of Zen include wabi-sabi (侘寂), the aesthetic of “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" beauty, yugen (幽玄): profound grace and deep awareness of the Universe; datsuzoku (脱俗): free and unbounded by convention and seijaku (静寂): tranquility, stillness…”

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Ecological Consciousness

art by Tsuchiya-Koitsu

-二十三夜堂からのメッセージ-

“人間は泣きながら生まれてきたんだ。ながい人生だもの泣くこともあるさ。その度に生まれ変わるんだ、きっと。”

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

Eckhart Tolle

"The practitioner should be at peace within. Do not seek tranquility outside. There is nothing that can be taken away from a person who is at peace within. " Buddha (Sutta Nipata 919)