Philip Kapleau Quotes

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• Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to…
• 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…
• 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, pigs,…
• Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well
• To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with…
• A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'
• If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with…
• The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.
• You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the…
• Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound
• 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…
• Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at…
• Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain…
• To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die-to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that…

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