Meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Yasunari Kawabata (June 14, 1899 - April 16, 1972), short story writer and novelist. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.

"The Zen disciple sits for long hours silent and motionless, with his eyes closed. Presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts. He departs from the self and enters the realm of nothingness. This is not the nothingness or the emptiness of the West. It is rather the reverse, a universe of the spirit in which everything communicates freely with everything, transcending bounds, limitless..." - Yasunari Kawabata

"Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the clear heart of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light." - Yasunari Kawabata

"A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary." - Yasunari Kawabata

"Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere." - Yasunari Kawabata

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