Buddhism Quotes by Quentin S. Crisp

19 Buddhism quotes by Quentin S. Crisp

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Quentin S. Crisp distills Buddhist ideas into bite‑size nuggets that feel instantly usable. In this set of 19 quotes you’ll see his pragmatic approach to mindfulness, ethics, and the everyday challenges of staying present.

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There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

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I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly…

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Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old…

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People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

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The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

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[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him…

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Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up…

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I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was…

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I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that…

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I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract…

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This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence…

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Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become…

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Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human…

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Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,…

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I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there…

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What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately…

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The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of…

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If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than…

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I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism…

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If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

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This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used…

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I've never been baptised.

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It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel…

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[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where…

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As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know…

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This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination'…

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I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the…

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This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

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I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life,…

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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

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[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and…

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I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but…

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