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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.

D.T. Suzuki

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
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
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Moon Thinking Woe
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Borrowed Grows Plumage
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
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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Crush Fighting Warrior
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
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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Disagreeable Regarding Threatening Track
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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Ideas Reality Ruins
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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Absolute Faith Inner
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking

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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