Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
D.T. SUZUKIZen 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.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Zen has no business with ideas.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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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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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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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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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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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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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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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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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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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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