When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time,… — 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
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way. — 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
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity. — 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
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. — 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
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature. — 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 Image
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 Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
