Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.
D.T. SUZUKIThe 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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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Zen has no business with ideas.
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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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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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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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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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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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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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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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