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.
D.T. SUZUKIGreat works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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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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Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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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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The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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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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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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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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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