Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have been words such as this: “Is it only I alone who have created this experience, or is it objective reality? Does the Master have the same feelings as I, or would mine amuse him? Are my thoughts new, unique, my own, or have the Master and many before him experienced and thought exactly the same?” No, for him there were no such analyses and differentiations. Everything was reality, was steeped in reality, full of it as bread dough is of yeast. Hermann Hesse
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Ryokan is a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and teacher. He was a student and contemporary of Dogen and the most famous of all Japanese Zen priests who contributed significantly to the transmission of Rinzai Zen to the West.

Source: The Glass Bead Game

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