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

D.T. Suzuki

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.
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Heart Religious Struggle
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
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
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
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Borrowed Grows Plumage
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
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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
Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
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Believe Men Religious
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
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

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