Frederick Sigfred Franck was a painter, sculptor, and author of more than 30 books on Buddhism and other subjects who was known for his interest in human spirituality. He was a native of The Netherlands and became a United States citizen in 1945. He was a dental surgeon by trade, and worked with Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa from 1958-1961.His sculptures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
His major creation, however, was a sculpture garden and park adjacent to his home in Warwick, New York, which he called Pacem in Terris, or "Peace on Earth." In 1959, Dr. Franck and his wife, Claske Berndes Franck, purchased the 6-acre property, the site of an old grist mill which over the years had become a dumping ground, for $800. They opened Pacem in Terris to the public in 1966. Dr. Franck dedicated it to Dr. Albert Schweitzer as well as to Pope John XXIII and the Buddhist teacher D.T. Suzuki. More than 70 sculptures adorn the property, which is now operated by a nonprofit foundation.
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“Even if there had never been a Buddha nor a Christ
CHRIST NATURE IS!
BUDDHA NATURE IS!”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 103
“Do you believe in God?
I, I believe in nothing but God!”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 65
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 8
“The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 37
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 102
“When the Christ says I:
it is the I of all the Masters:
the Way, the Truth,
the Life”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 94
“Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 120
Context: "Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler.
Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
“I am no What! I am only I …
In relation to you!”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 40
Context: "What are you?"
— I am no What! I am only I …
In relation to you!
“The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 74
“Life ends with the previous thought
It is resurrected with the subsequent One”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 143
“If you still have to talk
about Ultimate Reality
See how it manifests itself
nakedly
in
Every thing!”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 89
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 137
“In the beginngless beginning
there was
the Meaning”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 92
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 77
“The clearsighted eye turns the light back
to see its own Original Nature…”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 38
“the grasses
whisper
"This
is
my
Body"”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 98
“The sinner's ego is crude
that of the saint refined,
distilled. Careful! It may
be more poisonous!”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 21
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 63
“They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 124
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 121
“all at once
I saw
that the sun
was round! Since then
I have been the happiest man on Earth!”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 29
“How old are you?
As old as the Buddha.
And how old is the Buddha?
As old as I am”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 28
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 22
“a single leaf falling
autumn is everywhere…”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 10
“… each dot: the center of a circle without circumference …”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 2
“"Do you believe in God?"
"Which one?"”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 67
"Which one?"
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 67
