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.
D.T. SUZUKIThe ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one’s own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
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Dhyana is retaining one’s tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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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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I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
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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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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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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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We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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