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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.

D.T. Suzuki

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.
D.T. SUZUKI

Buddhism Essence Historical
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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Book Boys Hands
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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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Creating Kind Trying
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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Acceptance Doctrine Intellectual
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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Identity Movement Opponents
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Moon Thinking Woe
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
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Borrowed Grows Plumage
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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Crush Fighting Warrior
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way

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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