I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination'… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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