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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.

D.T. Suzuki

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

Done Great Work Thinking
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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Buddhism Country Latin People Plato
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

Archery Arrows Art
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
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
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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Absolute Faith Inner
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
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
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
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
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
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

Mean Moving Thinking
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
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

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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