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“You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.”

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According to limited available information, Quentin S. Crisp, born in 1972, is a person whose identity and profession have not been publicly documented in detail. more

“I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.”

“I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.”

Felt Cutting Masters Buddhism Mountain Rejection Recalls Zen Master Cutting Down

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.”

Ifs Feels Littles Order Creative Buddhism Calling Conflict Fundamentals Impulse

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.”

People May Wish Creativity Buddhism Fine Conflict

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.”

People Mean Different Creativity Buddhism Conflict Complexes Abstract Different Things Entity Different Peoples Different Relationships

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