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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.

D.T. Suzuki

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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Eye Get Nature Real Retaining
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
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All Bleeding Artist Great
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
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
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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Absolute Faith Inner
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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Mean Moving Thinking
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
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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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Forgotten Ideas Realizing
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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Enlightenment Sides Work
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
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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Conceptualization Confined Mean
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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Ideas Reality Ruins
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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Fishing Sea Simple

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