Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘That an individual achieves the status of “enlightenment” or “wisdom” is attributable to that person’s individual effort only in part, because achievements of this kind depend on the particular forms of human excellence that have been imagined and sought in the larger culture within which self-cultivation takes place. The wisdom of one exceptional human being one bodhisattva, one Mozart, one Mother Teresa, one person of excellence in any sphere of culture is the outcome of centuries of striving in the culture as a whole, through which that state of excellence has become possible.’ (The Six Perfections)

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