Koun Yamada Quotes

#1. I would do it myself, but my intelligence is out of repair ...

Mark Twain

#2. I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say ... " They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision ... " They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold ... " But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

Sheri S. Tepper

#3. Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

#4. Oh...oh, goddess, it's true about your tongues...

Savannah Stuart

#5. The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

Yamada Koun

#6. Football coaches don't have real problems.

Lou Holtz

#7. In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.

Yamada Koun

#8. The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.

Yamada Koun

#9. A flame burned in him, a faith that a comprehending Power existed, animating all this that it had created, and sustaining it with a love beyond anything that he, Reuben, could imagine.

Anne Rice

#10. I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

Charles Soule

#11. No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.

Fred Korematsu

#12. Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

Yamada Koun

#13. It is difficulties that show what men are.

Epictetus

#14. There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.

Raymond Arroyo

#15. I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.

Kevin Hart

#16. When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family.

Jessica Chastain

#17. Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.

Yamada Koun

#18. right now I feel like I just ate a cold snail raw.

Ray Bradbury

#19. The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Yamada Koun

#20. I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

Caroll Spinney