Inverencial Peace,
While working on a Vietnamese translation of Revolution of the Dialectic I discovered that nearly all of the zen quotes in that book are taken from the book “Zen Buddhism” by Christmas Humphreys. And that the Humphreys book lists references for the original Japanese and Chinese sources for most of them. I wanted to inform you of this because I saw that in your newer editions you are also looking up quotations and giving citations. Having a copy of “Zen Buddhism” by your side when doing that for Revolution of the Dialectic makes that easy work. Additionally, Master Samael takes most of his quotes from there in the same order that they appear in the original work.
Finally, you’ll notice that the quote that begins “Joshu asked master Nansen, ‘what is the way?’…” is actually two quotes mashed together. The second part about “don’t try to sing this song” is a separate quote from an English choir director, not from Joshu and Nansen. These quotes appear on pages 100 and 101 of Zen Buddhism that I found in pdf format on the internet.
I apologize that I don’t have the link handy because I located that PDF a year ago.
While working on a Vietnamese translation of Revolution of the Dialectic I discovered that nearly all of the zen quotes in that book are taken from the book “Zen Buddhism” by Christmas Humphreys. And that the Humphreys book lists references for the original Japanese and Chinese sources for most of them. I wanted to inform you of this because I saw that in your newer editions you are also looking up quotations and giving citations. Having a copy of “Zen Buddhism” by your side when doing that for Revolution of the Dialectic makes that easy work. Additionally, Master Samael takes most of his quotes from there in the same order that they appear in the original work.
Finally, you’ll notice that the quote that begins “Joshu asked master Nansen, ‘what is the way?’…” is actually two quotes mashed together. The second part about “don’t try to sing this song” is a separate quote from an English choir director, not from Joshu and Nansen. These quotes appear on pages 100 and 101 of Zen Buddhism that I found in pdf format on the internet.
I apologize that I don’t have the link handy because I located that PDF a year ago.
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Thank you for letting us know! We really appreciate your time and effort in clarifying these sources. 
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
Accepted Answer
Thank you for letting us know! We really appreciate your time and effort in clarifying these sources.
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
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