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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

D.T. Suzuki

Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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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Enlightenment Ignorance Silence
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
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
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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Archery Arrows Art
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
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
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
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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Identity Movement Opponents
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
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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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Acceptance Doctrine Intellectual
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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Fishing Sea Simple
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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Forgotten Ideas Realizing
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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