Hakuun Yasutani quotes
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“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.”
-- Hakuun YasutaniSource : Hakuun Yasutani (1996). “Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan”, Shambhala Publications
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“Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.”
-- Hakuun Yasutani
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“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”
Source : 'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'
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“I think being on Weeds, in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.”
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“To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.”
Source : Life magazine, December 05, 1960.
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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
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“Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...”
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