Kodo Quotes

#1. We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

Sadao Araki

#2. Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

Kodo Sawaki

#3. You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Kodo Sawaki

#4. Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Kodo Sawaki

#5. Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

Kodo Sawaki

#6. She didn't like weepy films. She liked to
quote D. H. Lawrence : "Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself
of feelings you haven't really got." Hers were grim European films
- Antonioni, Bertolucci, Bergman - films where everybody
died or wished they had.

Janet Fitch

#7. Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true.

Kodo Sawaki

#8. Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Kodo Sawaki

#9. I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

Katharine Isabelle

#10. You don't seek the way. The way seeks you.

Kodo Sawaki

#11. The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult.

Cortney S. Warren

#12. EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Kodo Sawaki

#14. Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

Ellen Datlow

#15. I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Mitt Romney

#16. No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

Kodo Sawaki

#17. Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

Kodo Sawaki