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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.

D.T. Suzuki

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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Book Boys Hands
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
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
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
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
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
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
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
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
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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
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
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 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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Mean Moving Thinking
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two

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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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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