Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
D.T. SUZUKIThe ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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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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The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
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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 Zen, time and eternity are one.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
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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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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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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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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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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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