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
D.T. SUZUKIEnlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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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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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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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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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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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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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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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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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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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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