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  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect. Download This Image
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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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The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

D.T. Suzuki

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Zen has no business with ideas.

    Zen has no business with ideas.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

    Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - To Zen, time and eternity are one.

    To Zen, time and eternity are one.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

    Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

    Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. Download This Image

    The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - We lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances. Download This Image

    We lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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.

    D.T. SUZUKI
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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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