Kodo Sawaki Quotes

• 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

  Animal, Air, Water

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

  Kodo Sawaki

  Honesty, Years, Special

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• Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

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  Loss, Enlightenment, Gains

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• To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend.

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  Girlfriend, Jobs, Grateful

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Taken

  "Zen ni kike : Sawaki kodo roshi no kotoba". Book by Kodo Sawaki, Munenori Kushiya,

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• You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Way

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• 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

  Thinking, Guy, Waste

  "Zen ni kike (To you)" by Kodo Sawaki (Tokyo: Daihorinkaku), 1987.

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• 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

  Practice, Body, Posture

  Complete Collection of Sawaki Kodo, vol. 15, p. 336, 1966.

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• Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

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  Self, Whole, Universe

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• Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

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  Truth, Lions

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• Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

  Kodo Sawaki

  Practice, Satori, Ends

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