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.
D.T. SUZUKIIf 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.
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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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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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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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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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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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki’s first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke’s Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino’s of Plato in the fifteenth.
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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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 we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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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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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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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