Review of 'Temple of the Golden Pavilion' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
"When ye meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha! When ye meet your ancestor, kill your ancestor! When ye meet the disciple of Buddha, kill the disciple! When ye meet your father and mother, kill your father and mother! When ye meet your kin, kill your kin! Only thus will ye attain deliverance. Only thus will ye escape the trammels of material things and become free."
Young Mizoguchi met the perfection in form of a temple. He was entirely too young to comprehend what this necessitated. And so he went on living, but the temple, the perfection itself, tormented him, for how any beauty, no matter how beautiful, no matter how profound, could compare to the ideal. But Mizoguchi eventually seized the thought, he knew the temple must burn, not only for his sake but for the sake of everyone! So much spontaneous delight does this world possess, why must we …
"When ye meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha! When ye meet your ancestor, kill your ancestor! When ye meet the disciple of Buddha, kill the disciple! When ye meet your father and mother, kill your father and mother! When ye meet your kin, kill your kin! Only thus will ye attain deliverance. Only thus will ye escape the trammels of material things and become free."
Young Mizoguchi met the perfection in form of a temple. He was entirely too young to comprehend what this necessitated. And so he went on living, but the temple, the perfection itself, tormented him, for how any beauty, no matter how beautiful, no matter how profound, could compare to the ideal. But Mizoguchi eventually seized the thought, he knew the temple must burn, not only for his sake but for the sake of everyone! So much spontaneous delight does this world possess, why must we allow perfection to blight it all?
