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

— Gary Snyder Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (1961)

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Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear.

Buddhist Anarchism (1961)

I recalled when I worked in the woods
and the bars of Madras, Oregon.
That short-haired joy and roughness—
America—your stupidity.
I could almost love you again.

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)

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