Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
D.T. SUZUKIGreat works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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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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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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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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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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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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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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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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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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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 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 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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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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