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.
D.T. SUZUKIWe 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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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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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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