Everyday Suchness Quotes

“Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“May we be free of the tyranny of our expectations of others.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“Enlightenment was not just Gautama Buddha's, but you too, individually, must find this new perspective of life, this new point of view in your life and in all things.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“Forget self pity, live life! Be the artist of your own life.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“We do not understand that we are literally able to live and enjoy life only because of other people and things. If one really understands this truth, he cannot help but become humble and appreciate others.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“It is a great mistake to say ”Conquer it,” for we can never conquer nature; we can only harmonize with it.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“...“living in oneness with Buddha’s teaching, is a creative life in which everything becomes meaningful.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“In each time, in each place, in each life, there is absolute value and beauty”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

“Concepts are not real things; a conceptualized world is a dead world. Living actualities lose their life when put into concepts.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living