Francis Harold Cook Quotes

• The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.

  Francis Harold Cook

  People, Found

  Francis Harold Cook, Francis Dojun Cook, Eihei Dogen (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

  Francis Harold Cook

  Pain, Feelings, Scream

  Francis Harold Cook, Francis Dojun Cook, Eihei Dogen (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?
  When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

  Francis Harold Cook

  Sea, Water, Valleys

  Francis Harold Cook, Francis Dojun Cook, Eihei Dogen (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

  Francis Harold Cook

  Heaven, Losing, Life Is

  Francis Harold Cook (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays”

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