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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.

D.T. Suzuki

Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
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
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
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 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
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 purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism.
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Eye Get Nature Real Retaining
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
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
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
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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Archery Arrows Art
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 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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Crush Fighting Warrior
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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