I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible. — Reginald Horace Blyth Bible Copy Share Image
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated. — Reginald Horace Blyth Exaggerated Copy Share Image
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed… — Reginald Horace Blyth Creeds Copy Share Image
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth Buddhism Copy Share Image
We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust. — Reginald Horace Blyth Ashes Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Perilous Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Acceptance Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter… — Reginald Horace Blyth Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Art Copy Share Image
The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Birth Copy Share Image
Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry… — Reginald Horace Blyth Another way Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self… — Reginald Horace Blyth Born Copy Share Image
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth Dog Copy Share Image
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth Existentialism Copy Share Image
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. — Reginald Horace Blyth Discovering Copy Share Image
Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one. — Reginald Horace Blyth A perfect world Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . . — Reginald Horace Blyth Book Copy Share Image
What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it… — Reginald Horace Blyth Becoming Copy Share Image
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in… — Reginald Horace Blyth Answers Copy Share Image
Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Bird Copy Share Image
Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care… — Reginald Horace Blyth Action Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H.… — Reginald Horace Blyth Haiku Copy Share Image
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. — Reginald Horace Blyth Buddhism Copy Share Image
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town… — Reginald Horace Blyth Choices Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes… — Reginald Horace Blyth Backgrounds Copy Share Image
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom… — Reginald Horace Blyth Fall Copy Share Image
We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put… — Reginald Horace Blyth Action Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But… — Reginald Horace Blyth Adventure Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Assumption Copy Share Image
“What is Zen? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, hesitating perfectly, doing anything perfectly or imperfectly, perfectly.… — Reginald Horace Blyth Failure Copy Share Image
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