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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.

D.T. Suzuki

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
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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Mean Moving Thinking
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.
D.T. SUZUKI

Buddhism Essence Historical
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
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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.
D.T. SUZUKI

Crush Fighting Warrior
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
D.T. SUZUKI

Borrowed Grows Plumage
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
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Art Growing Technique
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
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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
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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Eye Thirds Two Sides
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
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
D.T. SUZUKI

All Bleeding Artist Great

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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