"Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity,……" — Reginald Horace Blyth
"Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves."
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Reginald Horace Blyth
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23 Quotes by Reginald Horace Blyth
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There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
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I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
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These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness,…
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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in…
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Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.
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A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
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The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only…
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If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
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The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the…
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It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest;…
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The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones,…
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We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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