Yamada Koun famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Moments #Manifestation #Whole Life
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

#Passion #Practice #Brave
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

#Drinking #Sleep #Laughing
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
-- Yamada Koun

#Self #Practice #Uniting
The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.
-- Yamada Koun

#Character #Perfection #Purpose
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

#Nature #Philosophical #Self

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In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
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Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.
I believed in God my whole life.
Music is really driving my whole life.
There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

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