"Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha."

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Source : Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

Zenkei Shibayama

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“My enduring feeling about RenÃ© LÃ©vesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.”
“The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.”
“Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.”
“I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.”
“We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we're hoping that there's far - there will be many more women in the cabinet. It appears there will be and we're hoping that will happen. And - but the ones that have been picked, by and large, we have worked with. There's a couple that we haven't, but there - they look like their bio's are great and so we're - we're pushing on.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.”
“I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.”

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