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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

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
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
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
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 we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
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
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
Dhyana is retaining one’s tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.
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Anger Frustrated Mind
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Borrowed Grows Plumage
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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Disagreeable Regarding Threatening Track
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki’s first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke’s Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino’s of Plato in the fifteenth.
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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
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
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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