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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 16/04/2025

None of us is separate from the ocean, in the absolute sense. In the relative sense, it's wise to have strong open water swimming skills and a wetsuit rated for the current water temperature before diving in (I love swimming in the ocean). 😁

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 16/04/2025

Of course, this is not how it works. We cannot create separation while trying to dispel the delusion of separation.🤣

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 01/04/2025

Just wrapped up a four day long engaged compassion retreat. 🙏🙏🙏

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 25/02/2025

Strive to not strive while sitting zazen. 😆🙏

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 10/02/2025

"It’s not enough just to know the definition of bodhisattva and read about them. What’s much more important is to understand the actions of a bodhisattva and then to behave like one yourself; walk the path." -Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, “The Bodhisattva Vow: Eight Views”

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 07/02/2025

“Sit immovably in the place where being superior or inferior to others doesn’t matter.” -Kosho Uchiyama Roshi (Photo of Shōhaku Okumura Roshi, Sanshin Zen Center, Bloomington, IN)

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 04/02/2025

It's a liberating practice to step back for a second and ask ourselves the question "Am I taking myself too seriously lately?" 🤣

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 04/02/2025

"Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited, petty world is insane. Once you begin to get the feeling of how big the world is and how vast our potential for experiencing life is, then you begin to understand renunciation." - Master Pema Chödrön

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 04/02/2025

"Samsara actually refers to the confused inner world of our emotions, judgments, opinions, expectations, and actions influenced by these confusions. This is why we practice The Way: to see that all of our problems are self-created and thus have the potential to be self-liberated.” -Phakchok Rinpoche

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 03/02/2025

深深的敬意！Honoring Master Sheng Yen (1931-2009), who died sixteen years ago today. One of the two most impactful Taiwanese Ch'an (Zen masters) of the 20th Century. 🙏🙏🙏

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 03/02/2025

“Our sense of ego distorts awareness of our true nature, so even when we think we’re in the present, we’re “thinking” about the present. We’re not actually EXPERIENCING here and now. We start comparing and judging. Blinded by conceptual thought.” - Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 01/02/2025

"To be a monk is to make time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people." - Thich Nhat Hanh (Photo of a member of The Order of Zen Peacemakers walking the perimeter at Auschwitz concentration camp).

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 30/01/2025

“The practice of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva is to listen very deeply to every kind of sound, including the sound of pain from within and from without. When learn how to listen deeply and how to breathe deeply in mindfulness, everything becomes clear.” ~ Master Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 27/01/2025

Zazen should not be an exercise in creating another "I", but rather a way to more deeply realize "us". 🙏 "We work on ourselves to help others, but also we help others to work on ourselves." - Pema Chodron

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 27/01/2025

Brothers & sisters, always strive to be present! 🙏

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 01/01/2025

2024 may be gone, but the karma is still with us.

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 01/01/2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 明けましておめでとうございます 2025 is the Year of The Snake, which is very auspicious. The snake represents rebirth because it sheds its old skin each time it changes. We are also changing; we are reborn every single minute! 🙏 (Painting by Michiko Imai)

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 17/12/2024

You can’t get it through books or podcasts. Direct experience through zazen is everything.

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 14/12/2024

The culmination of decades of continuous training 🥰

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 11/12/2024

Regardless of what each moment throws at us, cultivating equanimity helps us to cultivate the mind of “ok”. Just acknowledge it, and keep going.

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 11/12/2024

Heirinji Temple Bell being rung by Zen Buddhist priest, Toshi Yoshida, woodblock print, 1951.

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 05/12/2024

All things arise and pass, whether we want them to, or not. So why not savor the things that give us joy, without applying conditions, while they last. This practice cultivates gratitude. 🙏

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 05/12/2024

Sometimes, our labels become our own self-imposed limitations. Handle that shippei freely. 🙏

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 05/12/2024

60% of Zen practice; scrubbing floors and toilets, by hand. Day, after week, after year. 🙏

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 04/12/2024

The Zen Buddhist re-framing of our Pledge of Allegiance. 🙏🙏🙏

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