Earth House Hold Quotes

“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

“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. They are both contained in the traditional three aspects of the Dharma path: wisdom (prajna), meditation (dhyana), and morality (sila). Wisdom is intuitive knowledge of the mind of love and clarity that lies beneath one’s ego-driven anxieties and aggressions. Meditation is going into the mind to see this for yourself — over and over again, until it becomes the mind you live in. Morality is bringing it back out in the way you live, through personal example and responsible action, ultimately toward the true community (sangha) of “all beings.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

“If we are lucky we may eventually arrive at a totally integrated world culture with matrilineal descent, free-form marriage, natural credit communist economy, less industry, far less population and lots more national parks.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

“It means using such means as civil disobedience,
outspoken criticism, protest, pacifism, voluntary poverty and even gentle violence if it comes to a matter of restraining some impetuous redneck.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

“The traditional harmlessness and refusal to take life in
any form has nation-shaking implications. The practice of meditation, for which one needs only “the ground beneath one’s feet,” wipes out mountains of junk being pumped into the mind by the mass media and supermarket universities.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

“The man of wide international experience”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold

“only a Bodhisattva has no Buddha-nature.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold

“Length of fetch” the distance a batch of waves has run without obstruction.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold

“We are all immortals & the ground is damp.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold

“(an empty water glass is no less empty than a universe full of nothing)—the desk is under the pencil.”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold

“Discipline of self-restraint is an easy one; being clear-cut”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold

“A man should stir himself with poetry Stand firm in ritual Complete himself in music lun yü”
― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold