Soko Morinaga Quotes

• The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling androlling and rolling.

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  Soko Morinaga

  Moving   Mind   Encounters  

  Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

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  Soko Morinaga

  Practice   Giving   Moments  

  Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.

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  Soko Morinaga

  Buddhism   People   Fundamentals  

  "Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity". Book by Soko Morinaga, p. 29, June 15, 2002.

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