To Zen, time and eternity are one.
D.T. SUZUKIProphecy 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.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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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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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Zen has no business with ideas.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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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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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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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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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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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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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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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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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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