Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes

#1. Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

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#2. There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

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#3. 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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#4. We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

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#5. Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours ...

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#6. Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

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#7. Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

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#8. A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

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#9. A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

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#10. What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

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#11. I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

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#12. There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

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#13. Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

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#14. Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ...

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#15. Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth ...

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#16. If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

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#17. Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

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#18. Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

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#19. Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

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#20. What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

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