From R.H. Blyth: “This is the true attitude of religion, of Zen, of poetry, towards everything, and especially towards animals: to ask nothing from them, to give them all the freedom and happiness consistent with our own existence.”
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Quote of the day 05/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What we have to do is to find some larger truth that will include and reconcile the two apparently opposing and contradictory lesser truths.”
Quote of the day 05/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “This is the teaching of Zen; that everything, even ourselves, had its lesson taught it when first made, that is, when it came into existence, and that to know what to do we must therefore ‘Enquire within.’”
Quote of the day 05/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Does not the sun scorch to death, and floods drown the good and bad with equal lack of discrimination? Do not the lilies of the field choke one another to death in their wild struggle for existence? This is true enough, but after all, not so staggering as it appears. In ZenContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/19/25”
Quote of the day 05/18/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The willow bends for me, gives her pliancy to me. I yield my heart to the willow, I give up my life to it. The willow and I are one. There is no giving and receiving at all. Life appears there, in the form of a willow, here, in the form ofContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/18/25”
Quote of the day 05/17/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The important but usually overlooked part of Christ’s short sermon, is the words ‘how they grow.’ The point is not the beauty of the flower, not the beauty of a Bach fugue but, how it grows. How does it grow? Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Bach attempted the task of explaining howContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/17/25”
Quote of the day 05/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…what Roshi is urging us to lose is such things as self-respect, our immortal souls, our wish to live, our pleasure in life, and so on. Of course, we shall get them all back again, but changed out of all recognition.”
Quote of the day 05/15/25
From Roshi: “He who studies gains something every day: he who follows the Way loses something every day.”
Quote of the day 05/14/25
From Patmore: To have nought Is to have all things without care or thought
Quote of the day 05/13/25
From Kikaku: The beggar! He has heaven and earth For his summer clothes.
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