Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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.
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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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I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.
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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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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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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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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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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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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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All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts
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That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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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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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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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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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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