Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
D.T. SUZUKIThe ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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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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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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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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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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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 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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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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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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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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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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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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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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
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