Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
D.T. SUZUKIBecause since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.
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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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