Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes

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• I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

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  Cat, Thinking, Important

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1970). “Zen and Zen Classics: Mumonkan”

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• We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe.

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  Mean, Men, Snakes

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

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  Thinking, Hands, Feet

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• There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

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• Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

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  Life, Country, Drinking

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• The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. When you have attained that point, neither future nor past, neither birth nor death, neither time nor space exist. It is that NOW which is liberation, which is perfect harmony, to which the men of the past and the men of the future must come.

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  Past, Men, Space

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”

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• The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.

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  Life, Fall, Night

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide-and-seek with himself. He takes on the roles and masks of individual people such as you and I and thus becomes involved in exciting and terrifying adventures, all the time forgetting who he really is.

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  Dream, Self Esteem, True Identity

  "Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth".

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• Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

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  Wisdom, World

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• The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

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  Smell, Religion, Looks

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

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  Life, Expression, Enlightenment

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

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• Nothing divides one so much as thought.

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  Divides

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• The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

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  Love, Religion, Three

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours.

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  Done

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• If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

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  Life, Real, Men

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1960). “Zen and Zen Classics”

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• What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

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  Essentials, Answers

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1970). “Zen and Zen Classics: Twenty-five Zen essays”

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• A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

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  Running, Dog, Mad

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

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  Mean, Perfect, Doe

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• What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

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  Eye, Looks, Becoming

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• These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

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  Love, Appreciation, Loneliness

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• The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

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  Self, Importance, Exaggerated

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

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  Safety, Poetry, Sublime

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.

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  Art, Nature, Self

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1982). “Haiku: Haiku”

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• Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

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  Enlightenment, Incomplete

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• Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

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  Games, Mask, Social

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”

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