Tao Te Ching
Gesshin Myoko Roshi
1931 – 1999 CE
Moon heart miraculous light
Rinzai Zen master as a girl known by Adolf Hitler who thought she was the perfect Aryan but whose family escaped to California; Gesshin Myoko (moon heart miraculous light) studied and taught Japanese and Vietnamese Zen. Painter, poet, calligrapher, and mystic from an early age; she led a life filled with spontaneous intuition and insight that led to meeting Sasaki Rōshi, becoming his disciple, helping him start thriving Zen centers, and becoming the head teacher. She later felt this approach was too severe and not appropriate for western students and developed her own Zen forms not tied to a particular culture, tradition or time period; but instead, connected with the particular students and environment involved.
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Generations
Post War Generation (1928 – 1945 CE)Sources
A Sudden Flash of Lightening: Words Out of Silence
Quotes by Gesshin Myoko Roshi (12 quotes)
“life is a day, a passage through green where light is more certain than leaves”
from A Sudden Flash of Lightening: Words Out of Silence
Chapters:
24. Unnecessary Baggage
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“time has no hold on her who filled the night with laughter”
from A Sudden Flash of Lightening: Words Out of Silence
Chapters:
56. One with the Dust
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“the Master walks down the road, an oversized robe carries only compassion”
from A Sudden Flash of Lightening: Words Out of Silence
Chapters:
67. Three Treasures
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“America could lose its precious freedoms if it is not paying attention.”
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“and then there was the vast openness of open space and that vast openness was I , myself”
Chapters:
12. This Over That
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“I don’t consider myself a teacher… I only try to show people how to turn on their light”
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“Wisdom is innate, not distant from ourselves. It’s what we are.”
Chapters:
25. The Mother of All Things
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“It’s not a matter of transmitting teachings, but of working unbounded, unhindered, free from traditions, directly with whatever you have.”
Chapters:
57. Wu Wei
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Chapters:
61. Lying Low
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“I follow the sound of water... it all comes to me when I look at what is”
from A Sudden Flash of Lightening: Words Out of Silence
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“A sudden flash of lightening fills the whole kitchen with onion sprouts”
from A Sudden Flash of Lightening: Words Out of Silence
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