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“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha—which is to demean oneself.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
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“A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.”
"Algren wrote in a letter in late middle age" (1960s), quoted by Richard Flanagan, 2005.
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“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?

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart.”
"Petals," from Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912).
Source: Letter to the abbess of Shinryu-ji https://sites.google.com/site/esabsnichtenglisch/bassui-tokusho-the-letters

Gautama Buddha, Samyutta Nikaya, Mahāvagga, verse 2
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