Babette Anouk

“Because earth, grass, trees, walls, tiles, and pebbles in the world of phenomena in the ten directions all engage in buddha activity, those who receive the benefits of the wind and water are inconceivably helped by the buddha's transformation, splendid and unthinkable, and intimately manifest enlightenment.Those who receive these benefits of water and fire widely engage in circulating the buddha's transformation based on original realization.”
― Dōgen, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo, 2 Vols

“Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen”
― Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Philosophy of Mind

“Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular world; they do not understand that there is no secular world in buddha dharma.”
― Zen Master Dogen, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo

“My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.”
― Alfred North Whitehead