Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
D.T. SUZUKIAs 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.
More D.T. Suzuki Quotes
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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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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
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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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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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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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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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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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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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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Zen has no business with ideas.
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