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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.

D.T. Suzuki

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
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
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
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
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
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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.
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Experience Facts Ordinary Thinking
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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Enlightenment Ignorance Silence
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
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
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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Buddhism Essence Historical

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