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"This is the most important teaching: not two and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one. […] And even though we say mind and body, they are actually two sides of one coin. This is the right understanding."

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

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I’d never thought about this before… My mother is Korean and my dad’s from the Midwest. I always assumed these habits were a working class thing. Interesting to think about it culturally, too.

rubato:

man so I just got back from my grandparents’ place

(it was pretty awesome to just talk in mandarin for like three hours ‘cause I never do that)

my grandma made these pork chops that my brother likes, and she was packing up a couple for me to take home for him

and I was thinking about the whole…

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from “Society of the Spectacle” by Guy Debord

flaura-fauna:

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To the extent that necessity is socially dreamed, the dream becomes necessary. The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.

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inkmountains:

If the logic of false consciousness cannot know itself truly, the search for critical truth about the spectacle must simultaneously be a true critique. It must struggle in practice among the irreconcilable enemies of the spectacle and admit that it is absent where they are absent. The abstract…

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"The transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather than unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, ‘The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day."

— Alan Watts, The Joyous Cosmology (via samsaranmusing)

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I love this.

I love this.

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"A special transmission outside the Scriptures;
No dependence upon words and letters;
Direct pointing to the soul of man;
Seeing into one’s own nature."

— Bodhidharma (via floydkelley)

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quoteporn:

Related: The Way of Zen, by Alan Watts (Amazon)
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zenmister:

This is why I like to write about Zen. Zen is a process that values happiness. It is also a process that values sadness. It is a process that values experience. Happy, sad, angry, scared, confused, love. Happiness is the bait, sadness is the hook. People who are generally happy don’t go looking…

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No Justice No Peace! Fuck Racist Police!

thepeoplesrecord:

Thousands at the Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin right now via

Sign the petition created by Trayvon’s parents to prosecute George Zimmerman. Reblog & spread. 

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