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

D.T. Suzuki

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.
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Conceptualization Confined Mean
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
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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Fishing Sea Simple
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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Eye Thirds Two Sides
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
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Art Growing Technique
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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Ideas Reality Ruins
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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Eye Get Nature Real Retaining
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
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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Book Boys Hands
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.
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Absolute Faith Inner
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving

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

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