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Quotes from Buddhism and the Coming Revolution — Gary Snyder

born 1930 United States

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The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.

Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (1961)

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.

Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (1961)

Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.

Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gary Snyder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.