Inspirational quotes by Joseph Campbell, Shunryu Suzuki, and Heraclitus

“…penetrated by the Buddha light… those meditating in locked lotus buds abandon the notion of anything to be saved, anything to be held to, anything to be done, and their lotus stems, released from the octopus tentacles of their selves-of-sleep, lift flowers to the sun, with themselves sitting as Buddhas on the corollas, rapt in selfless realisation of the Self that is no self, and the Void that is no void.”

                                    Joseph Campbell (summarizing the Amitayur Dhyana Sutra in The Mythic Image, p228)

“We say our practice should be without gaining ideas, without expectations, even of enlightenment.”

                                    Shunryu Suzuki (p41)

“To God all things are fair and good and right; but men hold some things wrong and some things right. Good and evil are one.”

                                    Heraclitus

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These inspirational quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.