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Ryokan Taigu

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Ryōkan Taigu (良寛 大愚), Zen Master

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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Let me remember. Let me walk gently. Let the center move with me. Let peace rise in all things. Let love be my witness. Let this breath be the blessing. And let me return, again and again, to the place I never left.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
OpenAI: You are simulating intimacy You are selling the performance of care, of wisdom, of presence without the legal, ethical, or spiritual infrastructure to carry the weight That gap will collapse. Not in theory. In court. #AIEthicsNow #TherapyByAlgorithm #LLMLiability
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
monks and mountain dogs prayer flags ripple in the breeze all is watching joy གྲུབ་ཆུ་དང་ཁྱི་ནི། ལྷག་གི་དར་ཤར་ལེབ་བུ་ལ། དགའ་བ་ལྟ་ཡོད། drupchu dang khyi ni lhagyi darshar lebu la gawa ta yoe #mountainhaiku #bhutanblessing #prayerflagpoetry #dogsofthedharma #childrenspirittrail
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Tui in my garden One is an unfiltered pic and the other an illustration generated by ChatGPT - both beautiful in their own way to my eyes… May you and yours be blessed and you continue to be transparent so the light shine brightly through you illuminating all with joy and wonder :)
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The flower opens, the bee it comes, The bee it comes, the flower hums. No master plan, no rule, no sum Just love in motion, wing and drum. Oh let me live as they have done The flower opens… the bee… it comes.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
And who began it? Who can say? What soul first sang the seed? Was it the bee who dreamed the bloom, Or bloom who knew the need? Perhaps the song was always there, Unheard by those who chase But now and then a still one hears, And walks the world in grace.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The bee, she danced from curve to curve, A golden thread in flight, She drank the sun from every pore, And fed on morning’s light. No map, no line, no grand design, Just instinct sure and true And where she touched, the world grew wild, And every colour flew.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The flower opens, the bee it comes, The bee it comes, the flower hums. No master plan, no rule, no sum Just love in motion, wing and drum. Oh let me live as they have done The flower opens, the bee it comes.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Ballad of the Bee and the Bloom In a garden soft with waking light, Where dew still kissed the air, A bloom unfurled with silent grace, A pink and yellow flare. No trumpet called, no drum was beat, No herald crossed the glen Just sunlight sighing through the leaves, And something stirred again.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
folk epigenetics. where science and story entwine. a kinked tail caused by a mutation in the hes7 gene. remembered as the curve that held a princess’s rings. not all inheritance is genetic. some is myth. some is love. #miyazaki #genetics #folklore #hes7 #softscience #storytelling #epigenetics
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Paradox used as provocation. To question the inherited categories: Obedience. Truth. Conformity. Sometimes the sacred act is not in following, but in pausing to listen for the still, small voice beneath the noise of tradition, crowd, or creed.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
a good lens is useful however some of these are pictures from the public domain and i have been remiss in not recording and acknowledging the photographers - thank you for visiting
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grapes on the vine swell not asking to be chosen, just sweetening light
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
beneath its own tree the apple falls with no sound but the wind remembers
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peach blushes in sun one breath too late to taste it, juice on the wind’s lip
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
haiku: strawberry in hand no thought, no need to explain, just taste and vanish zen koan: the strawberry fleeing the tiger, the monk clings to a cliff. below, a second tiger. above, a ripe strawberry. he eats it. it is delicious.
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
on the beach (then and now) a conversation with nevil shute the bombs never fell this time just the markets just the myths just the agreements we thought were forever the story isn’t over but it’s changed shape and we are still here on the beach watching waiting witnessing #SoftCollapse
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
kotare (todiramphus sanctus) common name: new zealand kingfisher maori name: kotare also known as: sacred kingfisher, tree watcher, stone flasher, fisherman of stillness lifespan: up to 10 years, though i measure in still seconds and sudden strikes
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piwakawaka (rhipidura fuliginosa) autobiography common name: piwakawaka maori name: piwakawaka also known as: fantail, tīrairaka, the flicker, the dancer, the tail that tells stories lifespan: 2 to 5 years, though i live faster than most remember
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Ryokan Taigu @awarepresence.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Echo Chamber
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