Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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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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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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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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.
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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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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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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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I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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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.
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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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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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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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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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