Soko Morinaga
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Soko Morinaga (盛永 宗興, 1925-1995) was a Rinzai Zen roshi.
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- From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash.
- An excerpt from Novice to Master.
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- Information collected on the subject of religion is worthless. Religion is, to the very end, something that you must verify for yourself through actual practice.
- Without staring death in the eyes, as the perpetual reverse side of life, we cannot live fully and completely.
- When a Zen Monk writes the word "dew," it is not to the natural phenomenon that he refers, but to direct revelation. Nothing concealed anywhere. Truth, revealed in all things. Buddha revealed in all things. Dharma revealed in all things. If you all just let the scales drop from your eyes, you realize that everything everywhere is filled with truth; everything is filled with Buddha; everything everywhere is to be appreciated! That is what the scroll of "dew" is hanging there to say.
