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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.

— 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)

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

Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (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.

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