Top 26 Philip Kapleau Quotes

#1. I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy.

Jack Coleman

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#2. Shhh Kelsey. I'm here. I'm not leaving you priya. Hush now. Mein aapka raksha karunga. I will watch over you priyatama.

Colleen Houck

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#3. Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

Philip Kapleau

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#4. Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

John F. Kennedy

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#5. I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

Thomas Beecham

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#6. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

Deepak Chopra

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#7. I'm the laziest person I know.

Natalie Massenet

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#8. To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.

Philip Kapleau

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#9. The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.

Philip Kapleau

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#10. Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well

Philip Kapleau

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#11. Religion is the balm of the people.

Karl Marx

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#12. Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

Jonathan Ames

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#13. If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.

Philip Kapleau

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#14. A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

Philip Kapleau

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#15. Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we ask of love,to measure,test,probe,and save it,have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Milan Kundera

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#16. Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.

Philip Kapleau

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#17. To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.

Philip Kapleau

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#18. By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

William Shakespeare

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#19. The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

Philip Kapleau

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#20. Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

Philip Kapleau

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#21. You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

Philip Kapleau

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#22. Anywhere where there are humans around is bound for destruction at some point in time, even paradise.

Jim Tan

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#23. Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

Philip Kapleau

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#24. But songbirds are trash," the chicken said, and the guinea hen laughed, saying, "Well, then, I guess we could all use a little more trash in our lives.

David Sedaris

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#25. Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.

Akiko Busch

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#26. Do you have a band-aid?" he asked Roni. Her brow puckered "No why?" "i just scraped my knee falling for you

Suzanne Wright

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