Bassui Tokusho quotes

“The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.”
-- Bassui Tokusho

Source : "Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui".

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“All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.”
-- Bassui Tokusho

Source : Bassui Tokusho (2013). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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“Do you wish to see clearly and be free?”
-- Bassui Tokusho

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“Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.”
-- Bassui Tokusho

Source : Bassui Tokusho, Arthur Braverman (2002). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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“My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.”
-- Bassui Tokusho

Source : Bassui Tokusho, Arthur Braverman (2002). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

#Pain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.”

“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”

“The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.”

“Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.”

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.”

“Friends don't let heads drive drunk!”

“Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!”

“I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.”