"Although we all possess the seeds of great……" — Philip Kapleau
"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."
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14 Quotes by Philip Kapleau
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Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade…
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Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What…
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To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter,…
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Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well
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To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it…
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A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is…
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If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if…
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The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.
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You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim,…
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Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound
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Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays…
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Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his…
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