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

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

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

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.

    That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.

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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 - The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity. Download This Image

    The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.

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

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D.T. Suzuki Quote - Zen has no business with ideas.

    Zen has no business with ideas.

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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 - Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.

    Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.

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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 - 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 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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