Frederick Franck Quotes

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It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory…

Frederick Franck
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

Frederick Franck
For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

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"What are you?"
— I am no What! I am only I …
In relation to you!

Frederick Franck
Innumerable Buddhas
Enlightened…
innumerable Christs crucified…
always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

Frederick Franck
The distance
between this pigeon's brain
and mine
is minute compared to that
between mine
and Bodhi's
Wisdom
Compassion

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People walking?
Karma walking …
Buddha nature walking..!

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In the beginngless beginning
there was
the Meaning

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All at once
I saw
that the sun
was round! Since then
I have been the happiest man on Earth!

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When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

Frederick Franck
The sinner's ego is crude
that of the saint refined,
distilled. Careful! It may
be more poisonous!

Frederick Franck
When the Christ says I:
it is the I of all the Masters:
the Way, the Truth,
the Life

Frederick Franck
"Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?" the monk asked.
The Master answered: "Yes! Your awareness, your understanding of the wonders of nature."

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They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.

Frederick Franck
The clearsighted eye turns the light back
to see its own Original Nature…

Frederick Franck
Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

Frederick Franck
Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

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… each dot: the center of a circle without circumference …

Frederick Franck
If you still have to talk
about Ultimate Reality
See how it manifests itself
nakedly
in
Every thing!

Frederick Franck
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation."

Frederick Franck
The Void is a living void
… pulsating in endless rhythms of creation
and destruction. The great Void does not
exist as Void, it embraces all
Being/non-Being

Frederick Franck
Even if there had never been a Buddha nor a Christ
CHRIST NATURE IS!
BUDDHA NATURE IS!

Frederick Franck
Do you believe in God?
I, I believe in nothing but God!

Frederick Franck
The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

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Life ends with the previous thought
It is resurrected with the subsequent One

Frederick Franck
"Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler.
Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?

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How old are you?
As old as the Buddha.
And how old is the Buddha?
As old as I am

Frederick Franck
The cross of the Cruxifixion — without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.

Frederick Franck