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.
D.T. SUZUKIEnlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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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 no business with ideas.
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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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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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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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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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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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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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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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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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