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.
D.T. SUZUKIWe teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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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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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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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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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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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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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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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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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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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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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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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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