Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.
D.T. SUZUKITechnical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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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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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 approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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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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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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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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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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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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We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.
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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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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