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

D.T. Suzuki

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
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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Identity Movement Opponents
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
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
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
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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Creating Kind Trying
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
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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Fishing Sea Simple
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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Anger Frustrated Mind
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Borrowed Grows Plumage
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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

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

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