As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
D.T. SUZUKIThe ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism.
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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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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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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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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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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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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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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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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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Zen has no business with ideas.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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