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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.

D.T. Suzuki

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
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 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.
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Disagreeable Regarding Threatening Track
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
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Believe Men Religious
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
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
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Moon Thinking Woe
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
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
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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 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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Heart Religious Struggle

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