Zen has no business with ideas.
D.T. SUZUKII 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.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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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.
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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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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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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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