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.
D.T. SUZUKINot 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.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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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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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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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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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
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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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The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
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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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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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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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