| Author Quoted | Shin'ishi Hisamatsu |
| Title Quoted | On Mutually Going Into the Matter of Self / translated by Gishin Tokiwa |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/05/30 |
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| Quotation | Hisamatsu: natural, rational and Zen spontaneity. "This is true self," he says, "going beneath spontaneity." Hisamatsu also says, "There is a big difference between the ultimate self and the self discussed in psychology. When one reaches ultimate self, spontaneity is changed into ultimate spontaneity. Zen spontaneity comes from ultimate self"¦formless self which is never occupied with any form." And he adds, "In western music, great silence is not found." |
| Quotation Source | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 113 |
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