Top 14 Dainin Katagiri Quotes

#1. Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.

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#2. The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

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#3. Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it, water immediately comes up. So drive your pipe into the ground. Tap into the water of compassion.

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#4. All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time - that's why we suffer.

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#5. Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

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#6. Whatever you think is delusion.

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#7. Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

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#8. If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

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#9. Make positive effort for the good.

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#10. The moment between before and after is called Truth.

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#11. The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.

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#12. You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

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#13. If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

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#14. The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

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