"At the deepest level, the desire for complete union with God exhibits a narcissistic structure."
Quotes from The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism — Byung-Chul Han
born 1959 South Korea
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"Zen Buddhism is inspired by a basic trust in the Here, a basic trust in the world."
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"The huge laugh is a most extreme expression of freedom."
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"Haikus allow the whole world to appear within things."
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"God is nothingness: He is 'beyond all speech.'"
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"Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself."
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"Emptiness is not a denial of the proper but an affirmation of it."
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"Emptiness empties the one seeing into what is seen."
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"When we resist impermanence, the self intensifies."
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"Enlightenment is an awakening to the everyday."
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"The emptiness of Zen Buddhism... creates a neighborly nearness between things."
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"...Zen Buddhism, this religion of immanence."
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"...I pray to God to make me free of God."
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Byung-Chul Han (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.