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Dogen, on the other hand, employs a variety of verbal devices such as philosophical wordplay, paradox, and irony in order to stress that there is a fundamental identity of language and enlightenment, or a oneness of the sutras and personal
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“Do you remember my friend Fumiko Kobayashi? She loaned me a book by a university professor named Taki Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Patterns of Behaviour, and she writes that death, particularly voluntary death, is surrounded in this country by a heroic, romantic, aesthetic and emotional aura. She says we often find it hard to communicate and use suicide to make our ideas, or beliefs, or sufferings known. I don't know whether I believe that or not.”
― Letters from Sachiko: A Japanese Woman's View of Life in the Land of the Economic Miracle
― Letters from Sachiko: A Japanese Woman's View of Life in the Land of the Economic Miracle
“He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes.”
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
“Robbers, thieves, smugglers, and cheats know their own local and personal circumstances and conditions extremely well, and pay the most active attention to their business; but it by no means follows therefrom, that society is in the best condition where such individuals are at least restrained in the exercised of their private industry.”
― National System of Political Economy
― National System of Political Economy
“Beautifully manipulated and in utter abandonment,
Raising upon the swell of the chanter’s voice,
She weeps and weeps as if to drown herself,
Okaru weeps…”
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Raising upon the swell of the chanter’s voice,
She weeps and weeps as if to drown herself,
Okaru weeps…”
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“I know how affected this sounds, but I want to die so bad I can’t stand it. From the time I was born, all I’ve ever thought about is dying. It would be better for everybody if I did—that’s clear enough. But I can’t seem to do it. Some strange kind of, fearsome kind of god keeps stopping me... My work means nothing. I have no masterpieces and no spectacular failures. If people say a piece is good, it’s good, and if they say it’s bad, it’s bad. It’s like breathing—in and out, in and out. What scares me is that, somewhere in this world, there is a God. There really is one, right?... There is a God, right?”
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
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