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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

To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
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
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
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
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Buddhism Country Latin People Plato
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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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Absolute Faith Inner
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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Eye Get Nature Real Retaining
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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Buddhist Enough Teaching
When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.
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Conceptualization Confined Mean
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
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
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

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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