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Koya-san is a Shangrila, just as far-off hills are indeed blue. Both places and people should thus be respected and enjoyed in not inspecting them too closely with a vulgar, nosy, and intrusive attitude. Here the style of Buddhism is called Shingon and is closely related to Vajrayana, the ritualistic and magical Buddhism of Tibet, so that in this p
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Teitaro Suzuki, unofficial lay master of Zen Buddhism, humorous offbeat scholar, and about the most gentle and enlightened person I have ever known; for he combined the most complex learning with utter simplicity. He was versed in Japanese, English, Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, French, Pali, and German, but while attending a meeting of the Buddhist
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
The venerable Subhuti thereupon answered, “Bhagavan, as I understand the meaning of what the Buddha says, the Tathagata did not realize any such dharma as ‘unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.’ Nor does the Tathagata teach such a dharma. And why? Because this dharma realized and taught by the Tathagata is incomprehensible and inexpressible and neithe
... See moreRed Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
the Hindu belief that enlightened beings may chose to return to the world out of compassion for those still enmeshed in saṁsāra, a notion more fully developed in the Mahāyāna Buddhist notion of the Bodhisattva.