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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

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
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
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
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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Identity Movement Opponents
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
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
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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Buddhism Essence Historical
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Borrowed Grows Plumage
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
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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Enlightenment Sides Work
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
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
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
Zen has no business with ideas.
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