Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand? (隻手声あり、その声を聞け)

💎Zen Kōan💎
~Hakuin Ekaku
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A fellow went to a Zen master and said, “If I work very hard, how soon can I be enlightened?”
The Zen master looked him up and down and said, “Ten years.”
The fellow said, “No, listen, I mean if I really work and use my vast knowledge, how long — ”
The Zen master cut him off. “I’m sorry. I misjudged. Twenty years.”
”Wait!” Said the young man, “You don’t understand! I’m — ”
“Thirty years,” said the Zen master.

~Zen Story
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You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.

~OSHO
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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.

~OSHO
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

~Zen Proverb
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

~Chuang Tzu
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

~Rumi
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

~Rumi
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

~Rumi
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What you seek is seeking you.

~Rumi
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If there are fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.

~Dogen
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Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.

~Dogen
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