The Sound of Water, the Sound of Wind Quotes

“[B]lossom anew every day. ... A practitioner, like the water, should continue to flow endlessly toward the great sea. Today’s flower is not the same as the one that blossomed yesterday. And a practitioner, like a flower, should blossom anew every day.”
― Zen Master Bopjong, The Sound of Water, The Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Korean Monk

“People who rid themselves of much gain much. To use a common adage, less is more. People confined or hurt by things should really think about this: Being possessionless also means that when you don’t claim a single thing as your own, the whole world is yours.”
― Zen Master Bopjong, The Sound of Water, the Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Mountain Monk

“The quest to rid ourselves of complete colonization by noise and to recover our sense of quiet goodness should be as necessary and perpetual as our quest to rid ourselves of air pollution.”
― Zen Master Bopjong, The Sound of Water, the Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Mountain Monk

“When I listen to that distant call [of the cuckoo], I become freshly aware of a sense of oneness with everything that exists. At such moments I come to see that everything is flowing together like a timeless river, and I become thoroughly convinced of this reality. The invisible becomes clearer than the visible, and the eternal becomes closer than the present. ,,, One of the tragedies of modernity is that artificial sounds are making it impossible to hear the sounds of eternity. They are cutting off the sounds that come from within the deepest part of us.”
― Zen Master Bopjong, The Sound of Water, The Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Korean Monk