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“Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.”

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Dogen was a Japanese Zen master born in January 1200 and died on September 22, 1253. He was the founder of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism in Japan and had a profound influence on the development of Zen Buddhism. Dogen advocated 'Zen is life,' emphasizing the close connection between Zen practice and everyday life, and his thoughts had a wide impact on Japanese culture. more

“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.”

Children Hard Reason Culture Judging Exercise Adults Core Reserves Sooner Or Later Stubborn Urgency

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.”

Way Form Humanity Wealth Economist

Book:Sincerity and Authenticity

Source: Sincerity and Authenticity

“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.”

Mind Saws Greater Constitution Tendencies Poetry Is Faculty Indigenous

Book:Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

Source: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.”

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