Therapist: Mediterranean Rinzai doesn’t exist, it can’t enlighten you Mediterranean Rinzai:

You can quite literally see karma unfold in real time if you have a good insight.

Just found out about Tigers Hermits in Thai occultism/magic tales and it’s absolutely glorious

Old ISKCON artworks were just incredible. HARIBOL!

Buddha be like: “told ya bro”

At any rate, when someone inquired what advantage the law of Lycurgus had brought to Sparta, he said, "Contempt for pleasures."

They see me Bodhidharmin' They hatin'

One of the most important signs of the absolute necessity of the Dhamma is the mental collapse of the average individual. Nowadays, everyone snaps like a spring over any triviality, they are always angry, easily influenced, and completely dominated by a thousand illusions.

in the Pāli suttas, there is a type of disciple called a “patisotagāmī puggala” (person resisting the current) such a disciple has not yet advanced far enough to shield them from the pains of existence, but they raw dog suffering through sheer willpower and dedication [AN 4.5]

Ven. Ānanda contemplated on death 7 times a day, the Buddha said it was too little. The Buddha himself contemplated on death with every in and out breath, that is complete mindfulness. Death is as close as our breath.

“War was a frenzied beast, a primal thing of thunderous roars and howls, but it did not last forever. The silence had existed before it, and when war lay down and died the silence returned. The void was the only constant, the certainty of an eternal emptiness"

the mummified corpse of a monk named Zenkai Shōnin (📸: Naitō Masatoshi)

The Buddha's Middle Teaching of Dependent Origination transcends all concepts of monism, pluralism and dualism. In a world of conditionality, relativity and flux, as directly experienced in the practice of Bare Attention, those rigid notions will soon appear as quite incongruous.

The call of Zazen will always be heard.

This is a powerful Dhamma lesson. While being distracted by egoic impulses you loose your natural awareness and you get defeated by the forces that lurks in the shadows. Always exert yourself to be mindful, humble and decisive.