I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
D.T. SUZUKITo Zen, time and eternity are one.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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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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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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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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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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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
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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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I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.
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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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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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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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