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  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.
  • D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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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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.

D.T. Suzuki

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Dhyana is retaining one’s tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

    Dhyana is retaining one’s tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. Download This Image

    The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life. Download This Image

    I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki’s first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke’s Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino’s of Plato in the fifteenth.

    Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki’s first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke’s Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino’s of Plato in the fifteenth.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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 Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

    The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Download This Image

    Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

    Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

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