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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

D.T. Suzuki

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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All Bleeding Artist Great
We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
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Eye Thirds Two Sides
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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Conceptualization Confined Mean
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
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
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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Enlightenment Ignorance Silence
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
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
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

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