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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.

D.T. Suzuki

Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
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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Experience Facts Ordinary Thinking
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
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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All Bleeding Artist Great
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
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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Mean Moving Thinking
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
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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Crush Fighting Warrior
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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Buddhist Enough Teaching
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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Anger Frustrated Mind
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
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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Archery Arrows Art
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
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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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