Katagiri Quotes

#1. Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in life.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Because, Mr.. Katagiri, Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you. And it's for people like you that I am trying to save Tokyo.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

Natalie Goldberg

#4. 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.

Dainin Katagiri

#5. 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.

Dainin Katagiri

#6. 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

Dainin Katagiri

#7. 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.

Dainin Katagiri

#8. Competition is a sin.

John D. Rockefeller

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

Dainin Katagiri

#10. Make positive effort for the good.

Dainin Katagiri

#11. I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.

Marlon James

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

Dainin Katagiri

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

Dainin Katagiri

#14. Whatever you think is delusion.

Dainin Katagiri

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

Dainin Katagiri

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

Dainin Katagiri

#17. 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.

Dainin Katagiri

#18. Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Tina Brown

#19. When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

Harrison Birtwistle

#20. Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in
a fight.

Emanuel Lasker

#21. I define God as ALL. All wisdom, All-wise,
All-loving and All-eternal.

Mitch Kynock

#22. Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

#23. I'm still fiercely ambitious.

Alexei Sayle

#24. You're missing the wow factor."

Garrett snickered. "Did you really just say wow factor?"

"Oh, whatever. What are you, twelve?"

"Twelve inches, baby." Garrett winked.

Miller laughed and rolled his eyes. "In your dreams, buddy.

Amanda Young

#25. The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

B.R. Ambedkar

#26. It's all about the parking

Jon Boorstin

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

Dainin Katagiri

#28. Her sublimity. And that belief had remained with her, I make out, till the

Henry James

#29. 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.

Dainin Katagiri

#30. I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.

Brian Froud