Yamada Koun quotes

Yamada Koun quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.”
-- Yamada Koun

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“Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.”
-- Yamada Koun

#Passion Quotes #Practice Quotes #Brave Quotes
“In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.”
-- Yamada Koun

#Drinking Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Laughing Quotes
“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.”
-- Yamada Koun

#Self Quotes #Practice Quotes #Uniting Quotes
“The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.”
-- Yamada Koun

#Character Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Purpose Quotes
“The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.”
-- Yamada Koun

#Nature Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Self Quotes

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