"The Buddha taught that all life is suffering.……" — Gary Snyder
"The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path."
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61 Quotes by Gary Snyder
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Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
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I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and…
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
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