The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
D.T. SUZUKIThe waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Zen has no business with ideas.
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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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