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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

D.T. Suzuki

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha’s experience.
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Buddhist Enough Teaching
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
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
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
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
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
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
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
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.
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Heart Religious Struggle
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
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
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
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless

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