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  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
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The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

D.T. Suzuki

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

    The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen. Download This Image

    We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

    Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

    Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki’s first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke’s Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino’s of Plato in the fifteenth.

    Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki’s first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke’s Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino’s of Plato in the fifteenth.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Zen has no business with ideas.

    Zen has no business with ideas.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

    Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Download This Image

    Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him. Download This Image

    The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha’s experience. Download This Image

    To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha’s experience.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts Download This Image

    All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

    Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

    I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way. Download This Image

    We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment – the Zen sense oof the alone. Download This Image

    A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment – the Zen sense oof the alone.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect. Download This Image

    The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

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