If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
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