Sawaki Quotes

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

Kodo Sawaki

#2. When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

Fede Alvarez

#3. "Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Kodo Sawaki

#5. 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

#6. For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat - hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone).

Albert Camus

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

Kodo Sawaki

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

Kodo Sawaki

#9. Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Kodo Sawaki

#10. 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

#11. The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

John Lewis

#12. I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

Pharrell Williams

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

Kodo Sawaki

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

Kodo Sawaki

#15. 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