"Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the……" — Philip Kapleau
"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 the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food"
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Philip Kapleau
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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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Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and…
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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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