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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.

D.T. Suzuki

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
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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Acceptance Doctrine Intellectual
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
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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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Creating Kind Trying
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
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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Forgotten Ideas Realizing
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Ignorance Silence
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
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
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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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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

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