Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout. — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good. — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows,… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that willfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one. — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
