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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

D.T. Suzuki

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
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
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 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
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
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
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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Buddhism Essence Historical
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
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
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

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