Quotes by Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays

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Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for eve — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeo — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much. — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays